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Poetry Quarterly will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue.

Poetry Quarterly  will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue. Thank you Editor Glenn Lyvers for regularly featuring my work. 

Poetry Quarterly will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue.

  Poetry Quarterly  will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue. Thank you Editor Glenn Lyvers for regularly featuring my work. 

My poem, "The Burning Time," is featured in the latest issue of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine.

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My poem, "The Burning Time," is featured in the latest issue of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine.

 My poem, “The Burning Time,” opens the latest issue of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine. You can read it for free  HERE .  My thanks to the editors for featuring my work in this issue as well as in four previous issues. 

My poem, "The Burning Time," is featured in the latest issue of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine.

 My poem, "The Burning Time," opens the latest issue of the Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine. You can read it for free  HERE .  My thanks to the editors for featuring my work in this issue as well as in four previous issues. 

My collection, Writing the Significant Soil, has won the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and will be published by them

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I am deeply honored that my collection,  Writing the Significant Soil , has won the 2021  Homebound Publications Poetry Prize  and will be published by them. My deepest appreciation to Editor Leslie Browning for her faith in this work. Congratulations to the Finalist and Honorable Mentions:

My collection, Writing the Significant Soil, has won the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and will be published by them

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 I am deeply honored that my collection,  Writing the Significant Soil , has won the 2021  Homebound Publications Poetry Prize  and will be published by them. My deepest appreciation to Editor Leslie Browning for her faith in this work. Congratulations to the Finalist and Honorable Mentions:

Langston Hughes on America

Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes  – 1902-1967 Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this “homeland of the free.”) Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat d

Review: The Mousetrap and Other Plays

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The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

My poem "The Burning Time" will be published by Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine in their Fall/Winter issue available online September 2021.

My poem “The Burning Time” will be published by  Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine  in their Fall/Winter issue available online September 2021.  This is the fifth time they have featured my poetry and I am deeply appreciative. 

My poem "The Burning Time" will be published by Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine in their Fall/Winter issue available online September 2021.

 My poem "The Burning Time" will be published by  Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine  in their Fall/Winter issue available online September 2021.  This is the fifth time they have featured my poetry and I am deeply appreciative.