Spoken by a doctor in retirement, the doctor looks behind and ahead under the moon.

This poem by Goethe is co-translated by myself and Jim Nicholson, and appeared in the magazine Measure first.

These nine sonnets span from the first dark freeze to the cusp of wet spring.  Click on the poem and you can scroll through all nine of them. 

These five poems appeared in BlazeVOX: an online journal of voice, in Spring 2025.  Bringing together poems from well over a decade, but of course tweaked and tuned from inception to this past spring, their common setting seems to be sunshine and the rain, wan light and dappled newness, a teasing renewal and seeking of the same.  Here is: "April Tease," "Marsh Yoga," "This Rain," "Self-Portrait in Yellow," and "Twin Candles."  If you click on the first poem, above, it springs into a PDF of five poems.

Like other writers, I am engaged in wide reading and developing my own tastes, views, and delights. Here, I review Baltimore-native, one-and-only poet Adrienne Rich, alongside contemporary poet Erin Belieu, and their view of the state of the union and themselves.  Click on the image to read it as a PDF.

Like other writers, I am engaged in wide reading and developing my own tastes, views, and delights. Here, I review former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, longtime professor and critic, immigrant due to WWII, and wonderful imagistic poet . Click on the image to read it as a PDF.

Like other writers, I am engaged in wide reading and developing my own tastes, views, and delights. It's hard not to celebrate the late, witty, piercing and provocative poet, Tony Hoagland, with this review of his most recent book of poems here.  Click on the image to read it as a PDF.