Featured image: detail from “The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus Discovered by Alexander the Great”; folio from a Falnama (Book of Omens): ca. 1550s, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Featured Poem, Fall 2020
This season’s featured poem is a song I wrote and recorded for Election Year 2020.
National Disgrace
The lies, once so outrageous
Soon became a point of view
Believed as much as proven fact
The most believed, least true
His former foes paid homage
To the powers he abused
Or ended up in exile: blamed,
Insulted & accused…
There’s a time for action
& a time to bear the weight
A time to ask for guidance
& a time to keep the faith
A time to gather in the streets
& make our voices heard
A time to cast our ballots
& to have the final word
More lyrics below the YouTube screen at link
A Selection
A Spell for Lamentation and Renewal New York Encounter Poetry Contest, 2019
From Desire: a Bestiary [Magnificent Frigate-Bird] Verse Daily & Lives of the Sleepers (U of Notre Dame Press)
The Underground Tour New Criterion
A Word the Romans Used First Things
The Sugar Thief Poetry Foundation & The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press)
Stella’s Children Look Out from a Photo Faded Gold The Common
East of Tin Pan Alley String Poet
Musicology Delaware Poetry Review (Prince issue)
The Afterlife of Beatles Poet of the Month & Cimarron Review
Live from the Dakota, Major Tom and David Bowman, Glory-of-the-Seas, On Trial for an Imaginary Murder Alabama Literary Review
Fire Victim American Life in Poetry & Lives of the Sleepers (U of Notre Dame Press)
Holy Wars for Us Verse Daily & Upcycling Paumanok (Measure Press)
Text and Flame Scoundrel Time
On Misreading the Coronavirus Designation as CORVID-19 Black Earth Institute blog
The Lunar Deniers Light
On Goodbyes Valparaiso Poetry Review & Upcycling Paumanok (Measure Press)
Near Halloween American Arts Quarterly
Remembrances of Yours Per Contra
Dark Horse Baltimore Review & Upcycling Paumanok (Measure Press)
Sea Star Ecotone
Miraculous Spirals Literary Matters
Poems of Resistance
Predictions for the President-Elect Poets Reading the News
Crybully Rattle: Poets Respond
Trump in Triumph The New Verse News
Dream Songs for the Governor of Michigan The New Verse News
Cell Phones Lifted in a Public Square Poets Reading the News
Post-Truth Villanelle The New Verse News
The Dark What Rough Beast/Indolent Books
For a Mother Born During the Great War, A New Moon for Neptune, Wren (Italian Americana feature with brief autobiographical essay)
