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New-Haircut Nolan sez hello.

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I’m kinda like Herman Munster crossed with Conan O’Brien.

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The new building facing Campbell Avenue is coming along nicely.

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This video was shot from Salem Avenue to the north.  (Roanoke, Virginia.)

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I see Christmas trees.

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Franklin Road in Roanoke, Virginia.

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The times they are a-changin’.

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The former Roanoke Times building is now the administration offices for Roanoke City Public Schools.

It feels so weird to me — maybe because the building was one of the first landmarks I remember seeing when I first came to Roanoke.

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Intersection of Church Avenue and Market Street, December 2023

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The Piker Press publishes “Three Dreamers”

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I am so pleased to see a trio of my poems appear today over in the pages of The Piker Press.  The set of three is entitled “Three Dreamers,” and the poems are as follows: “The Writer,” “The Secretary” and “The Bureaucrat.”

You can find them right here.

I wrote “Three Dreamers” very early in my career as a poet, and they were meant as a sort of creative experiment.  I wanted to see whether I could characterize three different fictional characters who have relationships with one another.  (The people portrayed here were imagined as office co-workers.)

Thanks once again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice at The Piker Press!

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Adele Evershed named Spillwords Press Author of the Month.

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I hope you will all join me in congratulating Adele Evershed as Spillwords Press Author of the Month for November 2023.

(Thanks also to those of you who voted for me, as I was a nominee as well.  I am flattered if you did so.)  🙂

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Three of my poems are featured in Impspired Issue 26.

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I am absolutely honored today to see three of my poems published in Issue 26 of Impspired in the United Kingdom.  The three poems are “At the Coffee Shop,” “Autumn Girl” and “A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse.”

You can find all three poems right here.  The print edition will be released at the end of January.

Thanks once again to Editor Steve Cawte for allowing me to see my work appear in such an outstanding independent literature magazine!

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The (Renovated) Arena Stage.

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So this is the Arena Stage in Washington D.C., these days. I saw a play there as a college student in 1994 or so.  (There was  a major renovation and expansion project since my days at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.)

I don’t even remember which production we saw, to be honest with you.  (I’m pretty sure it was Shakespeare.)  But I remember that the trip seemed exciting.  Fredericksburg really was just a mid-sized town back in the 1990’s.   Going into Washington D.C. at night with about 100 other theater students to see a live production felt like a pretty big deal.

And the trip and the show were a blast.

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Photo credit: Ron Cogswell, 2011

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Photo credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTAobYSR5k&list=FLEjGv3WZw134CN_yJVg3_Hg&index=1143

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A terrific hometown paper.

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