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Mystic Blue Review has accepted 5 of my “eerier” poems for their Issue #4.

Mystic Blue Review has accepted 5 of my "eerier" poems for their Issue #4.

Half Mystic Literary Journal  has accepted my poem “Frost Music” for publication.

What are the 10 most popular languages in the world? Look here to learn which languages make the list and how many speakers they have. — Read on www.thoughtco.com/most-popular-languages-1434469

Burningword Literary Journal  has accepted my poem “Aide–mé·moire” for publication in their  next quarterly issue April 5th, 2018. They have previously published another of my poems.

She wrote some 50 works of imaginative fiction, with plots one admirer called “haunting, hypnotic, incommensurable and strange.” She also wrote mysteries. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/kate-wilhelm-prolific-science-fiction-writer-dies-at-89.html

“ Ulysses ” has been my favorite Tennyson poem since I first met it as a young man. Now that I am much older, the poem seems even more apropos. And Helen Mirren’s reading of an excerpt on Colber t was wonderful. Ulysses Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known—cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honored of them all,— And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet

“People need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit.” -Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the Cosmos – The New York Times A physicist and best-selling author, Dr. Hawking did not allow his physical limitations to hinder his quest to answer “the big question: Where did the universe come from?” — Read on www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/obituaries/stephen-hawking-dead.html

My poem “ Shades of Difficulty ” is now live online at Parenthesis Journal. Another of my elegies for my mother.

My poem " Shades of Difficulty " is now live online at Parenthesis Journal. Another of my elegies for my mother.

My poem Sybil of Main Street is now published online by Dime Show Review. The poem is based on a real woman who wandered the streets of Belleville in the late 1970s when I was partner/manager of Gondolier Music on Main Street.

My poem Sybil of Main Street is now published online by Dime Show Review. The poem is based on a real woman who wandered the streets of Belleville in the late 1970s when I was partner/manager of Gondolier Music on Main Street.

My poem Sybil of Main Street is now published online by Dime Show Review. The poem is based on a real woman who wandered the streets of Belleville in the late 1970s when I was partner/manager of Gondolier Music on Main Street.

“The Simple Editing Trick That Will Change Your Writing” is published by Josh Spilker in Create Make Write — Read on medium.com/create-make-write/the-simple-editing-trick-that-will-change-your-writing-9e24a66ca5cd

“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” José Narosky

“… there are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. ” Isaac Asimov

“It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.”

“To mankind, and the hope that the war against folly may someday be won after all.” Isaac Asimov

The just-released Magnolia Review Volume 4 Issue 1 includes 3 of my poems.

Dime Show Review will publish my poem “Sibyl on Main Street” in an upcoming issue.

Dual Coast Magazine has accepted my poem “A Posture of Sitting” for publication in their next issue.

Dual Coast Magazine  has accepted my poem “A Posture of Sitting” for publication in their next issue.

Dual Coast Magazine has accepted my poem "A Posture of Sitting" for publication in their next issue.

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine Issue #8 includes my poems  “Black Bread” and “Harvests of Flesh.”

Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine Issue #8 includes my poems "Black Bread" and "Harvests of Flesh."

Read two of my poems and my meditation on them in the Fall 2017 issue of Temenos Journal.

Read two of my poems and my meditation on them in the Fall 2017 issue of Temenos Journal.

Read two of  my poems  and my  meditation  on them in the Fall 2017 issue of Temenos Journal.