Tag Archives: 2025

Uncategorized

Happy Thanksgiving, All! :-)

Leave a comment

Cover to LIFE Magazine, November 22, 1923

Uncategorized

Cover to Joan Aiken’s “The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase,” artwork by Corinne Reid, 2025

Leave a comment

Penguin Random House (United Kingdom Branch).

Uncategorized

Happy Veterans Day to all who served.

Leave a comment

And thank you.

Service members prepare the State and Territorial Cordon outside the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Nov. 11, 2023. This was part of the 70th National Veterans Day Observance. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)

Uncategorized

Happy Halloween, all!!

Leave a comment

Be good.  Don’t drink and drive.  Don’t egg my house.

(Cartoon by David Revoy.)

Photo credit: David Revoy, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Uncategorized

Care for a little spooky poetry for the Halloween season?

Leave a comment

Then check out Local Gems Press’ new Halloween-themed anthology — Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025.  You can order it from Amazon at the link below:

Ghosts, Echoes & Shadows 2025

(If you do purchase the book, I hope that you’ll peruse my poem about ghosts around Roanoke, “This Windy Morning.”)

Uncategorized

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

Leave a comment

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.

Uncategorized
Image 2 Comments

Uncategorized

The Piker Press publishes my review of “28 Years Later” (2025)

Leave a comment

I’m so happy to see my review of “28 Years Later” (2025) appear today over at The Piker Press.

You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this fun creative community!

Uncategorized

Photo of Woodhaven Boulevard train station in Queens, NY, Marc A. Hermann, 2025

Leave a comment

MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber announces the completion of ADA elevators and other improvements at the Woodhaven Blvd station on the J/Z lines on Friday, Jan 24, 2025.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)

Uncategorized

Poets Anonymous will publish my work in its upcoming annual Gathering anthology

Leave a comment

I am so pleased to share here that Poets Anonymous will yet again publish my work in its annual Gathering anthology; my poem “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival” will appear in Gathering 2025.

You can preorder a copy of the book right here at the Local Gems Press website.  The launch event will be on August 27th in Chantilly, Virginia.  (Details are at the website.)

This will be the third year running that Poets Anonymous has selected my writing for this annual collection.  I am grateful to Lesley Tyson and Megan McDonald of Poets Anonymous, along with James P. Wagner of the Bards Initiative.