The Piker Press publishes “Three Dreamers”

I am so pleased to see a trio of my poems appear today over in the pages of The Piker Press.  The set of three is entitled “Three Dreamers,” and the poems are as follows: “The Writer,” “The Secretary” and “The Bureaucrat.”

You can find them right here.

I wrote “Three Dreamers” very early in my career as a poet, and they were meant as a sort of creative experiment.  I wanted to see whether I could characterize three different fictional characters who have relationships with one another.  (The people portrayed here were imagined as office co-workers.)

Thanks once again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice at The Piker Press!



“Le Port de Trieste,” Egon Schiele, 1907

Oil and pencil on card.

es

Adele Evershed named Spillwords Press Author of the Month.

I hope you will all join me in congratulating Adele Evershed as Spillwords Press Author of the Month for November 2023.

(Thanks also to those of you who voted for me, as I was a nominee as well.  I am flattered if you did so.)  🙂



“The Enigma,”Gustave Doré, 1871

395543816_1089924499104801_7925584919875694659_n

That awesome day when your Twin Sister sends you “writer fuel.”

Nobody tell her that I am just sitting here stuffing my face and watching “The Zombie Diaries” (2006).  (It’s been a long day, people.)



Writer fuel - Copy

“Fallen Chair,” Egon Schiele, 1912

chair

“I throw my passport in the sea …”

403402060_310538558566685_6966693901318129195_n

The world’s very first science fiction movie.

Georges Méliès’ “A Trip to the Moon.” (1902).

I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t quite follow all of this … why are the scientists dressed like wizards at first?  Do the planets somehow make it snow on the moon at one point?  Those crazy French.

By the way, this link comes courtesy of Open Culture.



Three of my poems are featured in Impspired Issue 26.

I am absolutely honored today to see three of my poems published in Issue 26 of Impspired in the United Kingdom.  The three poems are “At the Coffee Shop,” “Autumn Girl” and “A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse.”

You can find all three poems right here.  The print edition will be released at the end of January.

Thanks once again to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work appear in such an outstanding independent literature magazine!



“Frohe Weihnachten!” 1907

“Merry Christmas!”  Color lithograph.

WW.28
Moriz Jung (Austrian (born Czechoslovakia) Moravia 1885–1915 Manilowa (Carpathians)) Merry Christmas! (Frohe Weihnachten!), 1907 Austrian, Color lithograph; sheet: 5 1/2 x 3 7/16 in. (14 x 8.7 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum Accession, transferred from the Library (WW.28) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/389199

Nurse Your Favorite Heresies in Whispers