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Carbon Culture Review has accepted another of my poems for future publication.

Carbon Culture Review has accepted another of my poems for future publication. http://www.carbonculturereview.com

Carbon Culture Review has accepted another of my poems for future publication

Carbon Culture Review has accepted another of my poems for future publication.  http://www.carbonculturereview.com

Carbon Culture Review has accepted another of my poems for future publication

Carbon Culture Review has accepted another of my poems for future publication.  http://www.carbonculturereview.com

Flaubert on Poetry

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. -Gustave Flaubert

Poetry

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. -Gustave Flaubert

Poetry

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. -Gustave Flaubert

Two of my poems are in the Summer issue of Touch: The Journal of Healing

Two of my poems are in the Summer issue of Touch: The Journal of Healin g

Two of my poems are in the Summer issue of Touch: The Journal of Healing

Two of my poems are in the Summer issue of Touch: The Journal of Healin g

The October 2015 Issue 16 of Vine Leaves contains my poem "Taconic Orogeny"

The October 2015 Issue 16 of Vine Leaves contains my poem "Taconic Orogeny"

The October 2015 Issue 16 of Vine Leaves contains my poem "Taconic Orogeny"

The October 2015 Issue 16 of Vine Leaves contains my poem “Taconic Orogeny”

My poem "Ghosts: Paper or Plastic" is in the October 2015 Yellow Chair Review

My poem “Ghosts: Paper or Plastic” is in the October 2015 Yellow Chair Review

My poem "Ghosts: Paper or Plastic" is in the October 2015 Yellow Chair Review

My poem "Ghosts: Paper or Plastic" is in the October 2015 Yellow Chair Review

Two of my poems are in the October Issue of the Birds We Piled Loosely

Two of my poems are in the October Issue of the Birds We Piled Loosely

Two of my poems are in the October Issue of the Birds We Piled Loosely

Two of my poems are in the October Issue of the Birds We Piled Loosely

Two of my poems are in the Fall 2015 issue of The Scapegoat Review

Two of my poems are in the Fall 2015 issue of The Scapegoat Review

My poem "Still Life: Old Man with Mockingbird" is in the Autumn/Winter 2015-16 issue of The Write Place at the Write Time

My poem "Still Life: Old Man with Mockingbird" is in the Autumn/Winter 2015-16 issue of The Write Place at the Write Time

My poem "Still Life: Old Man with Mockingbird" is in the Autumn/Winter 2015-16 issue of The Write Place at the Write Time

My poem “Still Life: Old Man with Mockingbird” is in the Autumn/Winter 2015-16 issue of The Write Place at the Write Time

Two of my poems are in the Fall 2015 issue of The Scapegoat Review

Two of my poems are in the Fall 2015 issue of The Scapegoat Review

Attending Culpeper Local Authors Extravaganza

Join me and other Culpeper area writes Saturday Oct 17 at the Culpeper Library. http://ow.ly/Tu9OO

Aji Magazine will publish 3 of my poems in its Spring 2016 issue

Aji Magazine will publish 3 of my poems in its Spring 2016 issue. http://www.ajimagazine.com/

Faith in the Word

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The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty My rating: 5 of 5 stars With this collection of thoughts and essays. Mark Doty shows that not only is he a fine poet, he is also a great explicator of poetry and advocate for its craft. He argues effectively for description of the world and the inner experience of it, and the informing of each by the other. Doty also points to a critical problem with so much current poetry: “Startling, to go description-hunting and realize that I can thumb through whole books of recent poems with very little evocation of sense perception within them. Why is this the case? I declare myself here on the side of allegiance to the sensible, things as they are, the given, the incompletely knowable, never to get done or get it right or render it whole: ours to say and say. The mightiest of our resources brought to the task, to make the world real.” There is a loss of faith in the ability of language to be more than solipsistic, and a concomitant...

Faith in the Word

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The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty My rating: 5 of 5 stars With this collection of thoughts and essays. Mark Doty shows that not only is he a fine poet, he is also a great explicator of poetry and advocate for its craft. He argues effectively for description of the world and the inner experience of it, and the informing of each by the other. Doty also points to a critical problem with so much current poetry: "Startling, to go description-hunting and realize that I can thumb through whole books of recent poems with very little evocation of sense perception within them. Why is this the case? I declare myself here on the side of allegiance to the sensible, things as they are, the given, the incompletely knowable, never to get done or get it right or render it whole: ours to say and say. The mightiest of our resources brought to the task, to make the world real." There is a loss of faith in the ability of language to be more than solipsistic, and a concomitan...

Two of my poems are included in the latest BPL issue

Two of my poems are included in the latest BPL issue. https://birdspiledloosely.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/issue-51.pdf

My poem "Ghosts: Paper or Plastic" is included in the Yellowchair Review October "Horror" issue.

My poem “Ghosts: Paper or Plastic” is included in the Yellowchair Review October “Horror” issue.  http://issuu.com/yellowchairreview/docs/ycrhorrorissue

My poem "Ghosts: Paper or Plastic" is included in the Yellowchair Review October "Horror" issue

My poem “Ghosts: Paper or Plastic” is included in the Yellowchair Review October “Horror” issue.  http://issuu.com/yellowchairreview/docs/ycrhorrorissue

My poem "Ghosts: Paper or Plastic" is included in the Yellowchair Review October "Horror" issue.

My poem "Ghosts: Paper or Plastic" is included in the Yellowchair Review October "Horror" issue.  http://issuu.com/yellowchairreview/docs/ycrhorrorissue