Getting Ambrosial

 Ambrosial Literary Garland based in Manipur, India published a poem of mine in their new issue,

Reading Me, Is the Right Thing to Do

 

Another poem up at Disturb the Universe, "Maybe I can Go My Own Way" 

Yesterday's Poem, Today

 

Thanks to Sandy Benitez over at the Black Poppy Review for publishing my poem "Sunrise Trials of the Occupant." 

Eat a Peach with Me

 

Over at Disturb the Universe with my poem "My Majority"

Therapy Session

 

My poem Therapy Session is up at Urtica Blog. Just a little verse to start your weekend.

New Stanzas in Last Stanza

 

Not that kind of stanza

My work is in the latest edition of Last Stanza Review, edited by Jenny Kalahar. It's available here.

Starting to Be Mr. Nice Guy

Pictured: a philanthropist

Theory time. As those of you who follow my blog have probably noticed, I have been posting more. Not posting my thoughts, no, but links to poems. Now why do you suppose that is? Am I getting better? Maybe. But I think the answer is more material. Namely that we're entering into summer break for the nation's teachers, professors, and adjuncts. That means more people with more free time to respond to submissions and post what they accept. Anyway, that's my theory and here's a poem from Hidden Peaks called Starting to Be Mr. Nice Guy.

This Poetry Is a GAS

 Poems published in GAS: Poetry, Art and Music. Buon Appetito! 

Live from AWP, it's Poems in Lothlorien Poetry Journal

 

Here comes the HMS Poetry with Poems, Doot Doot

Good morning from Philadelphia, land of Cheesesteaks, Punchy Rambo, Ladies with Horns, and the Freshest of Princes. Here are five poems to contemplate, courtesy of Lothlorien Poetry Journal. 

A Wafer-Thin Slice of Anxiety

Just a tiny, tiny little bit of anxiety, via a poem I wrote for A Thin Slice of Anxiety

Your Word for the Day is Synaeresis

Synaeresis is either the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel, or the separating out of the liquid from a gel.

It is also a publication from Canada.

Synaeresis : arts + poetry Issue 11 has now been published, featuring my poem "America's Fightingest General"

Ponder these Poems at Ponder Savant

This one's a doozy, five poems at Ponder Savant. They were selected for the theme "Still Shining." It's collection involving Arlington's Columbia Pike, Ticker Tape parades, and Plato. Thanks to Mia Savant for posting them.

St. Patrick in Prospect Park

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day a month early, with another poem of mine up at the Rye Whiskey Review.

As Online, so in Real Life (or Not)

Two more poems to share with you. The first is in the Rye Whiskey Review. That place is quickly becoming a satellite of this blog. But I can't complain. Exposure is exposure, unless its northern. In addition to this poem, there's another in As Above, So Below. The theme of the current issue is freedom/imprisonment. My works are called "The Prison State" and "The Price of a Gazebo."

Come See and Hear Me Read! (And some other people...)

So I'll be reading at Unnameable Books this Thursday. The reading will be part of a series to promote the release of Christine Stoddard's book launch for Desert Fox by the Sea. It'll probably be poems, but who knows. Maybe I'll read a Death Compromise from work, and then expound on how a poem is like asbestos, but good. The best of asbestos? Other readers include Jeanne Joe Perrone and Lana C. Marilyn.

You Don't Actually Have to Drink to Read My Poem "A Treatment"

But it probably helps when going through the blog that published it, Drinker's Only

A Minor Festival...

...awaits you over at the Rye Whiskey Review, where my poem Festival Minor was published. There's also a young picture of me back when I called New Jersey home.

NYC POETRY FEST 2019

Come one, come all. Come to the New York City Poetry Festival. This year, as in years past, it's on Governor's Island. Unlike last year, this year I'll be reading with Quail Bell Magazine. Come hear us do LIVE readings at the Algonquin Stage at 5:30 on Saturday. The Festival will go on both Saturday and Sunday and it's FREE!

Hammering Away at the Charleston Anvil

Good news everybody, I published a poem in the summer issue of the Charleston Anvil. That's Charleston as in the West Virginia kind. Chew on that.

A Poem About Social Media, on Social Media

Another poem of mine at the Rye Whiskey Review. Enjoy the old picture of me. Among the ways it's dated? I have a beard and I can;t fit into that suit anymore. I can't really fit into any suits anymore, except my birthday suit, if I hold my breath.