The Apostrophe Blog
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My poem, “Gift Event for Our New Gilded Age,” has been accepted for Fall 2024 publication by Gumball Poetry. Per the website, Gumball Poetry is a “single micro-journal in a capsule machine.” After over a decade offering poems published in various venues across the U.S. and on the web, Gumball Poetry has found a new home at The Stacks Coffeehouse in North Portland.
This poem first appeared in the Celebration Issue of Raven Chronicles, A Journal of Art, Literature & The Spoken Word, Vol. 22, Spring/Summer 2016 and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Kwakiutl Indian “Gift Event”—upon which this poem is based—appears in the second edition of Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania edited by Jerome Rothenberg.
Interests: Reading, writing, not arithmetic. The art and craft of poetry. Photography. Vegetable and flower gardening especially heirloom bulbs and dahlias. Movies in real theatres. Theatre on real stages. Art in real galleries. Crossword puzzles and, of course, Wordle. Singer-songwriters like Aimee Mann and Patti Griffin. All kinds of music especially 1930s jazz. Venice, Italy! The Dude abides.
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