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Make Your Own Kind
I just wanted to let you know about another project I’m working on. I have a brother who is suffering from the memory thief dementia. We hadn’t heard from him in some time. His last emails were getting more and more confusing, and he wasn’t returning our calls. We had gotten used to him becoming…
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Affinities, in Crab Creek Review
I am excited to share with you a poem published in this spring’s edition of Crab Creek Review. If you’re a fan of Robert Lowell, you might see a bit of influence there from his poem “Skunk Hour,” which he dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop. It’s not just the appearance of the little striped “critters,” but…
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Whale Road Review
As we continue through April and national poetry month, I can happily report that I got the chance to do a reading and impromptu craft talk at my new library this weekend. We were holding an author’s fair (planned out before my arrival on the job last month) and a reading slot opened up. I…
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Happy Poetry Month from the Monkey
My son Micah had a poem published recently in Anti-Heroin Chic. I am super proud of him, of course. Check it out!
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Blood Orange Review
My dad turns 90 years old tomorrow and we are planning a surprise party, well, we’re going for mild surprise. Nobody will be jumping out from behind furniture and shouting “SURPRISE!” We don’t want it to be his last birthday. He and I haven’t always gotten along. When I was 16 I ran away from…
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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…
