Bonfire Festival 2019 – “Honeymoon freestyle” and “Weary”

Was 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, […]

13 Epiphanies (while stargazing in a backyard in Rutland)

“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 […]

Books that are incidentally not in my library…

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 […]

Calypso

In the oldest texts, they say Odysseus was “wily:” that he known for his many wiles, even that he was “possessed” of wiliness. Most of us now associate “wily” with a certain bumbling coyote, but in the old days, before any of our modern society existed, it was different: you needed your senses to be […]

Featured

Welcoming The Fall

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 […]