Love Poetry… Update From the Author: November 2024 18 Nov 2024 Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers, slake yourself on these: longings deeper than the sea (Find above: an excerpt of a poem-in-progress that is thematically related to the…
Love Poetry… Update From the Author: September 2024 – Supplemental 20 Sep 202412 Jun 2025 Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers, It is with great pleasure that I announce to you that two of my poems, "Memento Mori" and "When the Rains Came,"…
Essays and Assays… Update From the Author: September 2024 2 Sep 2024 Dear Friends, Family, Fellow Authors, and Cherished Readers, It is with great pleasure that I write to you today. As some of you may know, I will be appearing in…
Poetry Update from the Author: Mid-May 2021 11 May 2021 Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues, and Beloved Readers, I am pleased to announce that I won first prize in the Jerome L. Schulman Memorial Poetry Contest for my poem, "the plague…
Interviews… An Update From the Author: December 2020 8 Dec 202022 Dec 2020 Dear friends, family, and cherished readers, As 2020 winds to a close, I am pleased to bring you a final update for the year. You can see my April, July,…
on writing… Four More Tips for Beginner Poets 27 Apr 202026 Apr 2020 Welcome to the third in this series, Tips for Beginner Poets. You can find the previous two posts here and here. By now, you hopefully have implemented some of the…
on writing… Three More Tips for Beginner Poets 13 Apr 202010 Apr 2020 For Tips #1-5, please visit the previous post on my Five Tips for Beginner Poets. That post became so popular that I have decided to make it an ongoing series.…
on writing… 5 Tips for Beginner Poets 6 Apr 202010 Apr 2020 Tip #1: Read, read, and read some more!The quickest and easiest way to get better at writing is to read - for inspiration, to study style and form, to observe…
