Welcome
For as long as I can remember, I have longed to live in a world where everyone thrives—where lives have dignity, dreams count, and stories matter. The possibility of this seems to fade with each passing 21st century day. So I turn to words: to connect dots, to bear witness, to celebrate and to lament.
James Baldwin wrote: “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” I write in search of words that can speak my language of truth. I write because I believe that what we experience as individuals, what we face, is wisdom we can—maybe even must—offer up to the world.
Words and the alchemy that happens when they meet in line and stanza, paragraph and phrase are what I have.
Words are all we have.
Publication News: Margie, the Journal of American Poetry
My poem, “The Weight of Too Much,” was published in Margie: The American Journal of Poetry in Fall 2006—one…
July 24, 2024
There are very few books whose titles begin with the letter X…
A while back, when I was putting together my abecedarian book-title manuscript, Miss Scarlet in the Library with a…
July 16, 2024
A fun alternative to the traditional author bio…
Fence Magazine has accepted two of my poems for publication in Winter 2024. They eschew those (often boring, too…
July 7, 2024