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New Book In Progress: Sisyphus

My next book of poems is titled Sisyphus  and I am drafting it on wattpad.  Hurray!  Or insanity! I can’t decide which descriptor is more applicable — drafting ,in public, a book that includes poems already completed as well as new…

Ebook is up with new cover

My book Stars Crawl Out From Their Caves has been republished on Amazon with a new cover — none of the inside content has been changed.  So if you already have a copy, no need to buy another. if you…

John Muir & Poetry Found in the World

I’ve been reading John Muir’s account of his 1879 trip to Alaska, which he wrote based on his journals and notes from that trip and then published in 1915.  As the small ship on which he sailed was passing among…

Sisyphus Gets His Own Wallpaper

Looking for a little poetry with your wallpaper? On this page you can get my poem Sisyphus Gives A Progress Report on the background of mountains, sky and water.  The original image is by Alberto Restivo, published on Unsplash, and…

Poetic form for a texting generation: the textu

Fady Joudah’s book textu consists almost entirely of poems that are exactly the length of a text message, 160 characters — or which are composed of stanzas that are each 160 characters. There are also a couple of prose-y poems…