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Poem in Valparaiso Poetry Review

We didn’t get out at all this Christmas or New Year’s because I tested positive for Covid, so this poem below, which I wrote reflecting on the winter of 2020 to 21, was actually just as fitting for January of 2023. During the lockdowns I had the joy of writing with an online workshop of…
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Reading with Poetry Square

I’m honored to have been invited by Diane Funston, Poet-in-residence at Yubba Sutter Arts and Culture, to read with Cheryl Latif and Julian Mathews in Poetry Square at 7 PM PT (10 PM EST). Please join us, either live or after the event on YouTube here:
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October Reading

Reading with the River Poets Time: Thursday, October 7th at 7:30 PM Place: Community Room of the Bloomsburg Public Library, 225 Market Street in Bloomsburg, PA The River Poets of central Pennsylvania are hosting my son Micah James Bauman and I at the Bloomsburg Public Library for a reading from our poetry chapbook collaboration, Mapping…
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What the Heck is a Chapbook

I’m glad you asked. Outside of the poetry world nobody seems to know what a chapbook is. So when I tell them that I have published two chapbooks and a third as a collaboration with my son, they often nod in puzzlement, happy for me, but obviously perplexed by my wording. Sometimes they ask, “A…
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New Chapbook

Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems My son Micah and I are thrilled to announce the publication of Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, a 29-page, beautifully hand-tied chapbook, selected as number 12 in Volume Four of the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series! This collection of 17 poems has been over two years in the making, so…
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Birding with Bernie

I’ve been asked why I don’t post much about my birding here. Maybe it’s because I’m not a photographer, and so I don’t have many of my own original images to share with you. I suppose I could write more on the experience—I’ll work on that. My ex was great at that. I could take…