My poem, “A Long Way Around” appears in the print issue of the American Writers Review 2025 anthology of poetry, stories, essays, art, and photograph from San Fedele Press. The theme for the anthology is “Buyers’ Remorse.” Here is what the anthology editor, D. Ferrara, has to say about the collection: “The work in this issue springs from the moment when the best-laid schemes have turned to dust. The crash can be obvious, subtle, or not yet realized. Some capture the instant of recognition and regret. Others speak to those who will never know what caused it, but who move forward blind to cause and effect.”
Oregon Poetry Association Contest Honorable Mention for a Prompt(ed) Poem…
A few months back, I entered the Fall 2025 Adult Contest of the Oregon Poetry Association. One of the categories this time was called Extended Prompt. The rules were one page and one poem maximum in any form following the prompt, “Turning Point.” The judge, Richard Tillinghast, provided some additional guidance: “Write a poem about a turning point in your life, a landmark event or life-choice. Something—
good or bad—has happened that changes everything.”
Acceptance News: American Writers Review 2025
My poem, “A Long Way Around,” has been accepted for publication in American Writers Review 2025, a publication of San Fedele Press. This year’s collection has the theme of “Buyer’s Remorse.” This poem is in a form called a golden shovel in which the last word of each line is made from each word of pre-existing poem to which the poet is paying homage. It was created by Terrance Hayes whose 2010 poem
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Organizing a New Poetry Manuscript
Suddenly, out of the blue, I’ve found myself motivated to gather up a whole passel of my recent poems into yet another book-length collection. Well, it wasn’t exactly out of the blue. I was spurred onward when I saw the notice for the John Ridland Poetry Prize, a new prize open to poets 55 years and older
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