MAKING BOOKS ROCK

Is midnight too late to use a hand mixer to make ice cream? This apartment complex is set up in a way that makes watching a CCR* biopic perfectly acceptable at this hour. Neighbors cannot hear from across the open floor plan of kitchen and living room that the midnight special is shining an ever-lovin’… Continue reading

No exaggeration, I have had it with “improved” technology after 7 hours this week editing my sites (and it’s only Tuesday). How did I manage to upload a PDF of the online journal WOC This Way for Poetry #2? Simple. I was trying to get rid of freakin’ double-spaced poems. Drives me batty. In an… Continue reading

I finished my pentalogy in 2022. 5 volumes in 12 years. Done. On to the next project, when I figure out which book to finish. 2 chapbooks and one supposed-to-be chapbook that now appears to be a full-length collection. Pretty sure I won’t be creatively bored stiff this year. It’s odd how finishing a project… Continue reading

Thank you to Zvi A. Sesling for choosing me as one of the featured poets in the Spring 2022 issue of Muddy River Poetry Review! Continue reading

Here’s my first pub. of the year! “Mignuette” in ORP. Thank you to Micah et al. Continue reading

Hello, sweet flakes. This snow-mad nomad missed you. Continue reading

Tell-Tale Chapbooks (TTC) seeks submissions for Tell-Tale Inklings #6, a journal of narratives. The priority deadline is the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31st, 2021). FOLLOW THE LINK TO READ GUIDELINES. NOTE THE NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS! Continue reading

Why are so many of us “little house” literary publishers still using Amazon’s KDP exclusively (while many booklovers are boycotting Amazon)? Because it’s easier for low-tech bookmakers to put something together without tearing our hair out. Not one to take the easy way out, I’d cite the brain scrambling timesuck as the issue here…but Lulu… Continue reading

After a brief sublet in Boston, I will try not to jinx myself by stating how I’ll be hopefully, sorta, kinda, pretty sure, can’t be worse than 2020, moving on to purpler, bluer, goldenish, decent-shade-of-greener pastures. June cannot come soon enough. I did, however, live in good ol’ Boston for a month. Back to the… Continue reading

In deep with poetry right now. Having written a poem every day since Thanksgiving, 2020, I am now writing with thousands of poets across the country (and in some other countries too). We can’t meet in person for hundreds of poetry events happening in Massachusetts, but there are plenty online to attend without having to… Continue reading

I won’t be publishing any of my own books this year, which is a bit sad, but I will be spit-polishing individual poem drafts to submit to journals now that the world isn’t going to implode real soon. Hidden Charm Press (HCP) is in recovery mode after being banned from FB as “hate speech.” Yep,… Continue reading

My first virtual poetry feature, at Stone Soup Poetry Series (on January 6th) went…okay…considering what-all was happening in the Capitol that day. Thank you to host Chad Parenteau and everyone who showed up to share his or her creations! Please support Hidden Charm Press in its 10th year by purchasing my latest poetry collection (via… Continue reading

What a year. You already know most of the bad news, so let’s begin with my latest poetry collection, My Life As A Masque (Hidden Charm Press, 2020). I will be reading from it as a feature at Stone Soup Poetry, Wednesday, January 6, 2021, 7-9 p.m. My first feature since I could see my… Continue reading

No fireworks today, but we’re lucky to be alive to blog! Happy Birthday, Nathaniel Hawthorne!!! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12296.The_Scarlet_Letter Continue reading

I’ve been lucky to have poetry keeping me sane as well as close friends keeping me out of a homeless shelter or a tent on the Boston Common mid-pandemic. Tell-Tale Inklings #5 will be wrapped up this summer scheduled for an Autumn release. Chad Parenteau’s TTC poetry collection will come out…someday, when we can actually… Continue reading