A few of my favorite things…
These first few are from Things As They Are, a chapbook awaiting for a publisher. These poems are reflections on a series of etchings by David Hockney based on “The Man With The Blue Guitar” by Wallace Stevens based on a painting of an old man by Picasso who saw a guitarist busking on a Barcelona street.
- “Five Poems” in The Ekphrastic Review
- “Made in April” in Shift
- “On it may stay his eye” in One Art
- “Serenade” in South Florida Poetry Journal
These next few are from a series in progress titled The Lost Star.
- “The Book of Stars” in The New York Quarterly
- “Stars Poetica” in Diode
- “The Resentment of Stars” in The Summerset Review
- “The Diaspora of Light” in Typehouse
- “The Hunger of Tides” in Philadelphia Stories
- “The Duality of Dust” in The Laurel Review
These are published in Mean Time.
- “Doing Time” in Rattle
- “Mean Time” in Rattle
- “Closing Time” & “Past Time” in Light Journal
- “After Time” in Rust + Moth
- “Down Time” & “No Problem” in Watershed Review
- “In Due Time” in What Rough Beast
- “Watching The Crucible in the Time of Trump at Theatr Newydd, Cardiff” in What Rough Beast
These are published in I Thought I Was Going to be Okay.
- “Grand Fugue” in Rattle
- “Foreclosure” & “Good Grief” in ETC
- “The Free Market” in Transition: Poems in the Aftermath
- “Next,” “What lies behind perfect love life, Peter Murphy” & “Not That Complicated” in Diode
- “Mission Creep” & “Sing” in Jet Fuel Review
- “Every Time” in Hawaii Pacific Review
- “Local Birds,” “The Modern Economy” & “Stairs to All Levels” in Sleet Magazine
“Labor Day: Atlantic City” in Rattle
“Erased” in Poetry City
“Harder” in Love & Ensuing Madness
“At the New Age Hotel” & “Can’t Dance” in The Cortland Review
“Baptism” in The Cortland Review
“Search For a Bent Twig” in Chest
“If This Be Treason” in Writing for Human Rights
“Blog,” “Mumbles” & “On Snowdon’s Wilds” in Brickplight
“Breaking News” in Philadelphia Stories
“Llywelwyn’s Dog” in Verse Daily (Ouch, they spelled Llywelwyn wrong)