Photo of New York City by John Atherton, 1967

Photo credit: John Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Uhhh … THANKS, Affordable Dentures.

Hearing from you really made my birthday happier.

Seriously, though, thanks to all the supercool, funny and thoughtful people who made my day brighter with messages either online or off.  This old man really appreciates it.  🙂

The Gathering 2025 and the Bards Poetica anthologies are now available at Amazon.

Care to lay hands on some poetry for the cooler days ahead?  Two new anthologies from Local Gems Press are now available at Amazon.

Gathering 2025 can be found here.  (If you happen to order a copy, please check out my poem, “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.”)

Bards Poetica can be found right here.  (If you order a copy of this book, I hope you’ll enjoy my poem, “Confession.”)

Have a great weekend!  🙂



“Old Age,” Jozef Israëls, circa 1895

Oil on canvas.

“Our passing through this earth is so absurd and fleeting …”

Seversky EP-106, P-35A, Swedish Air Force, 1976

Photo credit: Towpilot, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

“These are the late poems.”

BUK100 Issue #4 includes “Confession” and a photo of mine.

I’m honored to share here that Newington Blue Press in Germany will publish my poem “Confession,” along with at least one of my photos, in the upcoming BUK100 Issue #4 — the Forever Young Edition.

Preorder information can be found here.

Thanks once again to Publishing Editor Matthias Kruger for allowing me to showcase my work in this outstanding chapbook series dedicated to Charles Bukowski!



Art nouveau door in Huesca, Spain, photo by Kent Wang, 2024

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

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