Poems

2016 Broadsides Event, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers FL. My poem “Old Country remedies” on screen,  photo by Bella Che (click for full view)

2016 Broadsides Event, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers FL. My poem “Old Country remedies” on screen, photo by Bella Che (click for full view)

The Worcester Review, Volume 38 - Skating on the edge of flesh" (2017 Frank O’Hara Prize Winner)

Above Place Journal, Trees - "CAT Scan"

Above Place Journal, Voices of the Human Spirit  "Wind in Pines"

Amethyst Review - “Yom Kippur 5781”

"The Broadkill Review -  "Quảng Ngãi café", "Frog and toad are friends", and The Grim Reaper"

Camroc Press Review - "Chemo Brain"

Eunoia Review -"Wallpaper peeling above the headboard"

Incessant Pipe - "Summer in St. Louis (excerpt)"

Live Nude Poems - “Rudy Dog and Me

Muddy River Poetry Review -"Dying Poets Society"

Mulberry Fork Review - "Uncle Louie & Simon Bell"

The New Verse News - May 20, 2020 - “A Day in Pandemia”

The New Verse News - June 19, 2020 - “The Other Side of he Seesaw”

The New Verse News - February 21, 2021 - “Kidnapping Godot”

Nixes Mate Review - ”Rite of Passage #73–The Hospital Bed”

Pandemics Journal - Quarantine at age 67

Pine Hills Review - Tammany Hall (May 1976)

Radius - April 29, 2015 - "it was one of us"

Radius - August 13, 2016 -"Frank Stanford sitting on a cumulonimbus near the gate that bypasses Purgatory"


Red Eft Review - “Do What I Know”


Red Eft Review -"It's Tuesday so this must be Dana-Farber"

Red Eft Review -" One last loop”

Ritualwell - “Fresh Gefilte Fish”

Rocky Mountain Revival - audio journal edition celebrating Big Table Publishing authors. "Dad says Grace" and "Wind In Pines"
come on at the 7:53 mark.

Soul-Lit Volume 2 - "Agita", "John Lennon writes a note to Sean's teacher", "Nitrous Oxide", "The Fifth Floor", and "TUNIS"

Soul-Lit Volume 8 -"Talmud, standing, facing Teacher", "The Scroll of Jerú", and
"The Devil talks to his teenage son and gets raked over the coals."

Soul-Lit Volume 10 Feature - interview and poems: "My infusion nurse smiles as she releases the clamp on my pic line
and invites Cisplatin in", "Rosh Hashanah 5775 — Yom Sheni", "Cpl Jim on his furlough Thanksgiving 1942",
"Unreasonable", "Reincarnation at the tag sale", and "40 years later"

Soul-Lit Volume 15 - "You didn't say no", "the penultimate optimist,", and "how to tell my dog I'm dying"

Soul-Lit Volume 21 -"Yellow wine" and "Willie Grubbs"

Soul-Lit Volume 28  - “At the Head & Neck Clinic”, “ Mallorca”, “Twentieth Reunion”, and
“Why Dad Wouldn’t Take Mom To Hawaii

Soul-Lit Summer 2023 - Interview, “Peace Recycles”, “How to Live Properly”, “Goodbyes”, “Zady liberates the union”, “On a mission

Vietnam War Poetry -"40 Years Later", "Hippie", and "Match of the Wooden Soldiers"

Wilderness House Literary Review  - “Antebellum plantation, 1978”, “ What’s the best temperature to serve POETRY raw?”,   “ Mikey”,   “ In Consideration of Creed”

Worcester Magazine's Poetry Town -"Leaf Shutter”

Worcester Magazine's Poetry Town -"Revival” - video

Worcester Magazine's Poetry Town -"Tammany Hall (May 1976)"

The Worcester Review, Volume 38 - Skating on the edge of flesh" (2017 Frank O’Hara Prize Winner)

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