Lo Specchio e La Spugna

  The Big Windows Review , which is not a review about shopping for larger than average windows, has published a poem of mine in its current...

  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...

Pictured: namesake Maybe not children. This story gets a little blue. Thanks to The Bookends Review for publishing A Morning Hersey . 

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

  (Not fro my phone, Wiipedia) A poem of mine about Tinder is up at Jack Henry's site, 1870 Poems . Why not give it a look, then swipe r...

This folks is the flag of Northamptonshire . It's a shire in England. It's also where they publish a poetry review , where I am the...

Hopefully, we won't have to have another march like the one yesterday ever again . Nevertheless I think we need to be prepared for nex...

I guess any work with the word Renewal is fitting for this time of year, maybe for this place the country is in right now. Perhaps though it...

Listen to Alexander Smith read several poems of mine on Creative Writing Out Loud . You won't get to hear my voice, in case you wer...

Happy Labor Day! Appropriately, this poem was published at The Metaworker . Meta-labor certainly counts as labor, doesn't it? Otherwi...

I hope by making it small enough, it isn't obscene. Room in Rome is a terrible fucking movie. Literally. I looked it up on Wikipedi...

I've been a bit of a dandy these past few months Wow, it's been too long since I shared what's been going on. Well, there...

In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master 296 pages Riverdale Avenue Books Th...

2014 is here and hopefully it will bring the change I need after nearly a decade of socioeconomic blue balls. I need a new everything. Som...

That would make a lovely titled for a volume of my poem, wouldn't it? "When the Hard Meets the Moist: Collected Poems by Ben Nar...

I guess it lends a whole new meaning to the phrase: "Too big to fail." Also, judging from the picture it looks like Brian Moyni...

Order it here Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America Paperback: 468 pages Gay Press, Gay Power: The ...

Another book came for me in the mail a while back and I finally got around to reading it. Today's review is for Phil Harvey's Sho...

This month I have two poems up at Five 2 One Magazine . They are from my cycle of fake personals ads.  New idea: the Eno number. Basica...

A short story of mine, The Occupation , is up at Otherwise Caffeinated . Special thanks to editors KC Kirkpatrick and Toni Odell!