Poetry and About Poetry

Holy Heathen Rhapsody by Pattiann Rogers My rating: 5 of 5 stars I am constantly impressed by Pattiann Rogers craft, the careful music of her words, and her ability to interweave nature, science, spirituality, philosophy and everyday life. This is another fine collection I will reread again and again. View all my reviews

Rage by Bob Woodward My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

A Juror Must Fold In On Herself  by  Kathleen McClung My rating:  4 of 5 stars Kathleen McClung uses her experience as a juror to create poems in traditional forms. He craft is excellent and the poems are interesting and real. The interplay of the proceedings with her stray thoughts and her contemplation of the role she is playing all weave together in this worthy collection. View all my reviews

A Juror Must Fold In On Herself by Kathleen McClung My rating: 4 of 5 stars Kathleen McClung uses her experience as a juror to create poems in traditional forms. He craft is excellent and the poems are interesting and real. The interplay of the proceedings with her stray thoughts and her contemplation of the role she is playing all weave together in this worthy collection. View all my reviews

Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars A musical and metaphysical collection where Christian Wiman faces disease and death with honesty and poetic courage. View all my reviews

In 1977, “After Rain” was published in a now defunct journal called”The Poet.” After Rain When the filthy air falls in rain you can forget your footprints. They, like life and youth, have probably deserted you. With the cold wind burning in thru your thin clothes and cutting your flesh up like meat, the rain has probably passed, left behind, the consistent creep of frost out of the same night air. It bleeds from the moon, this iced dust, and clings to the rain felled leaves. The silver crunch of walking thru the silence of ice is heresy. But it does leave the sure imprint of your past in the morning- to-be- melted frost after rain. Printed in The Poet 11/9/77

Haunted Waters Press  will publish my poem, “Severance,” in their upcoming annual issue. This is the third time they have printed my poetry and  I thank the editor, Susan Utley.

Haunted Waters Press  will publish my poem, "Severance," in their upcoming annual issue. This is the third time they have printed my poetry and  I thank the editor,  Susan Utley.

 

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie My rating: 0 of 5 stars View all my reviews

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews

The Mueller Report: : Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election by Robert S. Mueller III My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen My rating: 5 of 5 stars A fantastic dose of therapeutic dark humor from the weird brain of Carl Hiassen, this novel skewers Florida yet again and the bombastic Commander-in-Chief. View all my reviews