Cover to “The Question” #14, Denys Cowan & Bill Sienkiewicz, 1988

DC Comics.

“April is the cruelest month.”

Source: American Literature on Facebook

(I am a bit of a flake …)

The heavily accented guy at the bodega cheerfully informs me that “NEW CEREAL SHIPMENT COMES *TOMORROW,* SIR!”

So evidently they know me as “that cereal guy.” Not sure how I feel about that.

[Update — now all my Facebook friends are cracking the various requisite “serial” jokes.  I should have seen that coming.]



Cover to Polish translation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Land of Mist,” 1927

Unknown cover artist.

“A writer never has a vacation.”

“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.”

― Eugene Ionesco



My poem “Like White Plumeria Petal” selected for anthology of New York poets.

Local Gems Press has selected my poem “Like White Plumeria Petal” for its upcoming Empire Poetry Verse collection.  While I am always grateful to be included in the publisher’s anthologies, I am especially happy to see my work in a volume specifically dedicated to poets from New York.

The launch event for Empire Poetry Verse is scheduled for May 18th in Greenlawn, NY.  The book is also available for preorder here at the Local Gems Press website.

Thanks once again to James P. Wagner for allowing me to be a part of this important creative community!



“On Earth as it is in Heaven,” Alphonse Mucha, 1899

Lithograph.  From Mucha’s Le Pater.

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”

Source: Hell And Earth on Facebook

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