Iceblink and You Might Miss It

 

An Iceblink is a visual effect caused by light reflecting off a mass of ice in the distance near the horizon. It is also the name of a literary publication. A poem of mine, "Floating in the Hive" heads up Issue 8.

Synchronize with My Chaos

 

Synchronized Chaos has published poems by me. Pictured above is a garnet, in honor of one of them: Garnet Harbor. It was inspired by a Max Ernst painting but I can't remember which one it was, so enjoy this rock.

"Don't Worry About the Background. Just Go for the Tonal Values"

Metphrastics a publication based on poems inspired by the art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  has come out with its Summer 2025 issue

And wouldn't you know it, one of my poems is in it, called The Tonal Values. It's influenced by a painting from Edouard "Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?" Manet, pictured here.

I Am the Model of a Very Modern Artist

 

The Modern Artist has published three poems of mine:

Layout Review

Disguised Originality 

The Sugar Windows Open

The Conventional Outlook with Benjamin Nardolili

 

Three poems in Rethink Magazine. Click the issue, put a $ value from 0 or more for the PDF, download it, and read.

The Test of a First-Rate Intelligence Is the Ability to Hold Two Poems in Mind

 Two poems in Paradox Magazine 

One is about Psychedelic Urbanism (and is easier to understand than Megalopolis), and the other is about love, longing, and loss.

An Urbane Print in the Midnight Fawn Review

New poem in the Midnight Fawn Review. It has a Mondrian feel to it. Click on part 2 of their first issue to read it.

I'm Not Sure if Bardics Is a Real Word

Check out issue one of Bardics Anonymous to see work by me. I guess it isn't so anonymous now. 

Making (Green) Waves

 

I inspired a work of art! With a poem! It's by Irina Tall! It's in the latest issue of Wild Greens. 

A Cocktale for St. Patrick's

 

Pictured: not me

Howdy and happy March. Blessed tidings for the Hibernians amongst you as well. Here's a story I published in Dead Booze, called Plumped Into the Reeking Chest. Might not be safe for lunch, but cheers anyway!

Arts by Ben, for the People

 

The Platform Review, put out by Arts by the People, published a poem of mine "Big Apple Showtimes." Maybe I posted it before? Well, it might be new for you.

Beginning of a Romance?

 

the engine(idling has published a poem of mine called End of the Romance in their first issue, "Wild Abandon" 

I Wrote This Poem While Attending AWP In Philadelphia in 2022

 

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com

Thanks to Nolcha Fox for publishing it.

Truth, Beauty and Imagination

 

A venue based out of Bangladesh with this name published a poem of mine called Motif Romanesque. It was influence by the painting of a similar name, done by the artist Maurice Denis. Denis was part of a late 19th - early 20th century art movement called Les Nabis. In case the names haven't given it away yet, they were French. The name was derived from a Hebrew word for prophets. They saw themselves as a rejuvenating force in art.

Posting This Again in Case You Missed It

 

Guessing game: Mondrian or Map of Wyoming?

Hello all. A couple of months back I posted a link to two poems of mine that were published in underscore_magazine. Well, I am linking back to them again because editor-in-chief Erica Leslie Weidner has nominated "Zoning Changes" for Best of the Net!

Scudding Along

 

Two poems of mine are in Scud. The first is based on a sketch by Edward Hopper at the Whitney. The second is based on a picture I took at a beer garden:

Defunct 12 Is Live! And Up! And Ready!

 

Defunct, the magazine of the Long Island University MFA program, is up. According to the masthead I'm a poetry editor. We've got fiction, translations, and creative non-fiction as well. Some of the art is mine. We cut up and inked an old Life Magazine. Read and enjoy.

From the Pollock Streets to the Mondrian Spaces

 

Two poems in the first issue of Underscore_Magazine. One is about the art of urban planning, the other is about, well, a different kind of urban planning. 

Summer Spire

 

Pleased to have a poem of mine in the inaugural issue of Cosmic Daffodil called "Summer Spire."

Kafka, Asbestos, & Prose

 

Image by Frank Jackdaw

Good news, I won a small writing contest. This one was held to promote the work of Robin Hemley's new novel Oblivion, an "after autobiography" where a recently deceased writer gets to encounter Franz Kafka in the afterlife. Read my entry and enjoy.