My poem “This Windy Morning” will be included in Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology!

I’m thrilled to share here that a poem of mine will be included in this year’s installment of Local Gems Press’ annual Halloween anthology, Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.

The poem is “This Windy Morning,” and I am grateful to Maddie McGivney and Bards President James P. Wagner for letting me join the holiday fun.  🙂

You can preorder a copy of the book, if you wish, right here at the Local Gems Press website.



Cover to Buzzy Lee’s “Facepaint” EP, 2018

“L’Age,” Alfons Mucha, 1898

“Adulthood.”  Color lithograph.  From The Four Ages of Man calendar for Chocolat Masson.

“The Cross Roads,” David Cox Jr., 1850

Oil on panel.

Cox the elder, David; The Crossroads; Birmingham Museums Trust; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-crossroads-33414

Two of my poems were published today by All Your Poems Anthology.

I am honored to have two of my poems published today in the October 2025 issue of All Your Poems Anthology.  The poems selected were “Like White Plumeria Petal” and “Fawning Haiku.”

If you would like to purchase a copy of the October issue, you can find it here at Amazonhere at Barnes & Noble or here at Apple Books.

I am grateful to Editor and Publisher Storm M. Grayson for accepting my work for such a wonderful indie lit magazine.



“October,” Alfons Mucha, 1898

From  Les Douze Mois (The 12 Months), published in Cocorico magazine.

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