Lo Specchio e La Spugna

  Sodapop Press has made me their first published poet. Here is The Station Approach , about entertaining for the holidays.

  The Big Windows Review has allowed me to publish a poem about a certain dating site . 

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

  “I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat,” comedian Will Rogers spoke these words almost a century ago. Back then it wa...

  You start out in 1954 by saying, "N****r, N****r, N****r." By 1968 you can't say "N****r"—that hurts you. Backfire...

  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 Ob...

They are extremely not politically correct. Read them here .  

UPDATE: I'll be part of a reading on Sunday, May 22, 2022. It is called " Poet Voice Sucks: Funny Poetry From Writers, Comedians ...

  Apparently I've written it. A poem about urban development and renewal is up at Class Collective . It was inspired by my times catchin...

  Happy New Year. 2022 is here. To stay? We'll see. Wine Cellar Press is out with its latest issue: Gressive . It's broken down int...

Enter through the gift shop In search of outdoor activities to do in the time of Covid, I came upon the Eisenhower Memorial in DC . The Dwig...

  Two poems of mine are at Flight of the Dragonfly . They've got a Classical theme of sorts.  Also, I'm in the inaugural issue of Wh...

No, I'm not discussing a recently rediscovered lost Microsoft product from the Gold Age of Gates. The Windows 96 in question is both the...

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

  The Hanging Gardens of Babylon c. 562 BC The Battle of Salamis c. 480 BC Balboa sights the Pacific c.1513 The Battle of Lepanto 1571 The F...

The best I could do for a public image for "power grab" Not a grab for power, but a poem called "Power Grab," which you ...

Time for something sweeter in place of all the sourness in the news. Last Christmas, I got an assortment of British chocolates as a present....

Don't let the skulls put you off. I have five poems in issue 48 from Raven Cage Zine.  Click on the link to read them. Another literary...

In this age of statues coming down their plinths, and places being renamed, calling something the “Worst Monument in DC” brings to mind the ...

A poem of mine is in the literary journal As It Ought To Be Magazine. It comes from my time as a paralegal dealing with clients from upst...