In his book, The Unsettling of America, Agrarian philosopher and poet Wendell Berry discusses at length the virtue of “the Fall” as an initiating device. He has a marvelous interpretation of a scene in Shakespeare’s King Lear wherein the blinded Earl of Gloucester is led to the edge of a cliff by Edgar, his estranged […]
Read More Welcoming The FallThis is another series of poems from deep in the vault (sometime in 2012)! The collection was inspired by the poem Mockingbirds by my good friend Katie Wisnosky, which serves as the first of the four poems in the collection. Each of the subsequent poems was written in light of the previous entries, and the […]
Read More Mockingbirds Collection, pt. 4This is another series of poems from deep in the vault (sometime in 2012)! The collection was inspired by the poem Mockingbirds by my good friend Katie Wisnosky, which serves as the first of the four poems in the collection. Each of the subsequent poems was written in light of the previous entries, and the […]
Read More Mockingbirds Collection, pt. 3This is another series of poems from deep in the vault (sometime in 2012)! The collection was inspired by the poem Mockingbirds by my good friend Katie Wisnosky, which serves as the first of the four poems in the collection. Each of the subsequent poems was written in light of the previous entries, and the […]
Read More Mockingbirds Collection, pt. 2This is another series of poems from deep in the vault (sometime in 2012)! The collection was inspired by the poem Mockingbirds by my good friend Katie Wisnosky, which serves as the first of the four poems in the collection. Each of the subsequent poems was written in light of the previous entries, and the […]
Read More Mockingbirds Collection, pt. 1This poem comes out of the early days in my hometown when I was young poet frequenting open mics and performing whenever I could. The title is a reference to a music and poetry duo I was a part of called Birds of Cray (hence the bird-related references within). The context of the poem is […]
Read More Sick Beaks, yo!“Welp” I hear this a lot, as a middle school educator. Today, I wonder… is this the refrain of generation zed? Welp representing resignation. An enormous shrug. A capitulation to fate, a throwing up of hands. Declaration of disappointment. “Welp, that happened!” “What can ya do, eh?” Appropriate in many contexts: Hissy-fit, flat tire, natural […]
Read More RefrainAfter the form of William Carlos Williams in his poem This Is Just To Say. This is just to say… 1. This is just to say… I have ignited the roof of the apartment building That was under construction on Lakeshore Avenue And which you were Probably saving For highly profitable sale. Forgive me. It […]
Read More Ink and DashWas very “stoked” to have been invited to be a featured poet on one of the stages during Bonfire Fest 2019, a terrific gathering of musicians and artists in a very cool and quirky spaces. Many of the folks in charge of the festival share a special connection, as I do, to St. Stephen’s University, […]
Read More Bonfire Festival 2019 – “Honeymoon freestyle” and “Weary”“I’m with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.” – Allen Ginsberg, Howl, 1955. People often tell me I have a way with words. Nice, right? But also suspicious because they never specify what […]
Read More 13 Epiphanies (while stargazing in a backyard in Rutland)The First Billion is the Hardest by T. Boone “Slim” Pickens. By New York Times #1 Best-Selling authors Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen: A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 MORE stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit. Portrait of a man with Red Hair, by Hugh Walpole. The […]
Read More Books that are incidentally not in my library…
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