Quotations for writers
“Each season some melancholy young face would stare soulfully from the cover of the latest issue of American Poetry Review, a journal dedicated to the principle that a new author need not be talented, only photogenic.”
—Dana Gioia, "James Tate and American Surrealism"
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Sunrise, Acadia National Park, Maine
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Pride Parade Flag Launch, Portland, Maine
Poetry. Photography.
African Burying Ground Memorial, Portsmouth, NH. Sculpture by Jerome Meadows.
as the albatross borne on air
as the sequoia surrounded by fire
as the seed enveloped in frozen earth
as the turtle in the vault of deep water
—from"On Hold," in Does It Have Pockets
- Two of my poems are among over 80 works of photography, illustration, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction in this new anthology edited by Rhonda Rosenheck.The watercolor cover art was painted by children’s book illustrator Anne Catharine Blake. Rhonda presents the work in six clusters: Noticing, Accepting, Wrestling, Opening, Entwining, and Exuberance. I joined Rhonda and other contributors for a book tour event at the new South Portland Barnes and Noble in August. Order from Exsolutas Press.
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"Elisabeth Thible" and "Sleuth at the Seance" are included in Power of the Feminine I, vol. II.
Girl in Pink, Harpswell, Maine
Cormorants at Kettle Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
A video of my poem "The Color of It" that's in included in the anthology From Pandemic to Protest, released fall 2021 from The Poetry Box.
Recently reviewed two excellent poetry collections, by Ken Fifer and Marcia LeBeau, for The Main Street Rag and Pedestal Magazine, respectively.
Does It Have Pockets has cool graphics, and in the September 1 issue, two of my poems:
"Shortfall (Family Edition)" was selected as a finalist in Broad River Review's 2024 Ron Rash Awards for Poetry. The poem will appear in a future issue.
My review of Richard Blanco's lastest collection, Homeland of My Body,is in The Main Street Rag, spring 2024.
"From Away" will be included in an upcoming issue of Main Street Rag. The poem is about adapting to life in a new place.