I was lucky enough to get a few photos published this past year. If you’d like to take a gander at them, all of my published photos can be found in the section below:
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Poetry and Commentary, 2024
2024 was a banner year for my poetry. If you happen to enjoy my ongoing, Kafka-esque portraiture of a neurotic scribbler, all of the year’s publications can be found right here:
Poetry Hall again translated my poetry for its global readership of Chinese readers.
I received some really terrific year-end news a little while ago — Poetry Hall again translated a selection of my work for its worldwide audience of Chinese readers.
The biligual journal, which prints poems in both English and Chinese, selected three of mine for Issue 26; the poems are “Blue,” “Autumn Girl” and “The Mountain At Summer, Seen From A Passing Car.”
I am grateful to Kai Mills, Managing Editor of English Poetry, for allowing me to see my writing showcased in Poetry Hall this second time around.
If you would like to purchase Issue 26, you can find it right here on Amazon.
I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season!
Trees at the University of Mary Washington, photo by Morgan Riley, 2007
Formerly Mary Washington College. Photo taken from Campus Walk.
Photo credit: Morgan Riley, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The Piker Press publishes my photo of some stragely darkened hills in Woodbridge, Virginia
The Piker Press today featured what might be my favorite photo of mine — a shot of a mid-afternoon Northen Virginia neighborhood that was suddenly and virtually eclipsed by heavy clouds racing over the area.
It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, and I happened to be there at just the right time. You can see the photo right here.
Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of the creative community of The Piker Press!
People who say “I don’t trust the polls” are just being racist.
Polish people are just as honest as anybody else.
(I never really did anything with my psych major anyway.)
Gonna start a Pink Floyd cover band with a couple of other psych majors, gonna call it “Jung Lust.”
My buddy Gary Monte saw me posting this on Facebook and chimed in with this: “I started one called ‘Run Like Hell’ and we were so bad, that’s exactly what the audience did!”
Dorm room at Mary Washington College (then “The Normal School for Women”), 1920
Free Covid tests are once again available from the federal government.
You can order them right here — it takes less than a minute.
These are the rapid antigen tests, which are not as reliable as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests (the kind that are analyzed in a labarotory). But, hey, you can’t beat the price.
Here is a Washington Post article with more information — including when exactly to take the tests and where else to get them.
Three of my poems published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 33: Vortex Voyagers.
Things are looking up a bit in stormswept Roanoke. First, a break in the rainy weather allowed a sojurn today to Benny Marconi’s for pizza. Second, the mailman brought me my copy of Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 33: Vortex Voyagers.
It is a wonderful 237-page tome of outstanding work, and it is just the after-midnight reading that I need right now. (Insomnia strikes again.)
If you want to enjoy it too, you can order your copy right here. (And if you do happen to purchase a copy, I hope you peruse the three poems of mine there — “school shooter,” “This Windy Morning” and “The Rough Violet Stone.” These were published online by Lothlorien in February.)
