Spillwords Press features “An Ode to the Paintings of a Newly Discovered Artist”

I’m so happy to share here that Spillwords Press today published my poem, “An Ode to the Paintings of a Newly Discovered Artist.”  You can find it right here.

As always, thanks to Dagmara K. and the rest of the folks at Spillwords Press for allowing me to be a part of this terrific creative community!




Poster for “Giorgio Moroder Presents Fritz Lang’s Metropolis” (1984)

Special edition of 1927 film distributed by Parufamet Films.

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“One crown is lacking, Prospero …”

One crown is lacking, Prospero,

My empire is my own;

Dying Alonso does not know

The diadem Antonio

Wears in his world alone.

— Antonio’s refrain, from W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror



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Photo credit: Subhrajyoti07, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

“West Front of Llandaff Cathedral, Glamorganshire, South Wales,” George Cooper, 1807

Print.

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For Mary Washington College Alumbuds — and other DC-area friends who are authors …

The Prince William County Public Libraries are inviting metro area authors to submit books that they’ve written for a display of local authors:

You can find out more at this link.



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Cover to “House of Secrets” #144, Ernie Chan, 1977

DC Comics.

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Here’s an image of the new Maya Angelou quarter.

It is currently circulating on Facebook.  (No pun intended.)

I actually met Maya Angelou (or attended one of her readings, really) when I was a student at Longwood High School.  Our English class took a field trip to Suffolk Community College in New York  in … 1988 or 1989, I think.  One of my alums piped in on Facebook to say he remembers too.



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Cover to “House of Secrets” #120, Luis Dominguez, 1974

DC Comics.

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Be safe.

If you find yourself feverishly writing elegiac couplets, get yourself tested for Ovid-19.



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Illustration of Canto I of Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” by Gustave Dore, 1892

Elephant folio edition.

"Scarce the ascent
Began, when, lo! a panther, nimble, light,
And cover'd with a speckled skin, appear'd,
Nor, when it saw me, vanish'd ..."
                           Canto I, lines 29-32.



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