I've just started writing freelance articles at Suite101, most of which will be about modern and contemporary poetry - with an emphasis on American poetry movements. In this case though, the article deals with Auden's use of 'voice' in the poem cited. I'll post links on my page whenever something gets published. If you find the subject interesting, I hope you'll read them and share your thoughts here. Because discussing poetry, with all the diverse perspectives that other poets bring to the tabl… Continue

M in Less Than Three ebook. Those clever people at FULL OF CROW have been producing smashing ebooks recently. One of them is the LESS THAN THREE ANTHOLOGY which features pieces of absurdest fiction under three paragraphs in length. It's edited by Jeffrey S. Callico and Lynn Alexander and cover art is by Justynne Tyme. Contributors include: Michael J. Solender, Doug Mathewson and ME. I have a little story called simply M.

The link to download is here:… Continue

At night the stars stare down
Sightless, clueless to our terror
And we look up in gloom or hope
At glimmering far above the weather.

If distant galaxies are home
To clones of humans frail and faulted
Or creatures great as any Gods
Whose every thought and word’s exalted

Or even if not one can speak
Though living yet in their own ways
And we’re not universally alone
‘Midst nebulae and milky ways

We’ve still got Earth to terraform
To beat our plowshares up from wars
To rise above this human stor… Continue

This afternoon, on vacation, sitting at the beach with a cigar in one hand and a notepad in the other, getting a head-start on inscriptions for Charactered Pieces preorders, I was struck with a sense of… Continue

A series of serious events has unfolded and given me cause to take action. I had to make a terrible decision that tore out a piece of me and the rest of the issues are doing considerable damage in impact.

I am seriously, grievously and even spiritually injured. And the nightmare is only beginning. I have no one to turn to now but God. Yes, part of that is my own fault, but I strongly feel I had no choice. I cannot explain that at this time.

What I can say is that, for now, it has to be just my… Continue