Cover to “The Phantom Stranger” #19, Guillem March, 2014

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Bernie Sanders at Mary Washington College!

Circa 1990.  Also … I have too much time on my hands.

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Get your copy of Illumen’s Winter 2021 Issue

The Illumen Winter 2021 issue is on sale now over at Hiraeth Books; you can purchase it right here.  If you do get a copy, please check out both poems of mine in this issue — “Not of Byzantium” and “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves.”

Thanks again to Editor Tyree Campbell for allowing me the opportunity to see my work appear in this outstanding science fiction and fantasy poetry magazine!





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Cover to “The Phantom Stranger” #0, Brent Anderson and Jeromy Cox, 2012

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A little site update …

If you’re blackly fascinated by my mad attempts at scribbling, I’ve started a new page here at the site for my poetry publications in 2021.  You can find it right here:

Poetry and Commentary, 2021

 

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Trying to select a new author photo.

Hey, if there’s a bandwagon, I’ll jump on it.

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“The Mayor” from “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Hieronymus Hess, circa 1849

Lithographic plates.  After Matthaeus Merian’s 17th century drawings.

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The Roanoke Times Published My Latest Letter to the Editor …

… this one about the January 6th coup attempt.

Bear in mind, please, that this was written the evening of January 6th — long before the more frightening details of the coup emerged.




Peeking Cat Literary publishes “The Rough, Violet Stone”

There’s a brand new poem of mine up over at Peeking Cat Literary — its title is “The Rough, Violet Stone” and you can find it right here.

I’m especially pleased because the poem was also selected for the next Peeking Cat Literary Anthology, scheduled for release in October 2021.  Peeking Cat Literary is the new incarnation of the former Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, which recently returned after a one-year hiatus.

Thanks once again to Editor Sam Rose! I am honored indeed to see my poem both online today and scheduled for the print anthology.





Variant cover to “Detective Comics” #999, John Byrne, 2019

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