Anyway, Kellie and I were walking in the city park at Salem early Saturday morning, and we both took a picture trying to capture the...

Anyway, if I am going to blog about poetry, sometimes the discussion has to get a little bit technical. My hope is that I can find a...

Anyway, I have finished the poem for the first request that I have received from a reader. I generally do not think it is fair to explain...

Anyway, Kellie's sister Diane Keith responded to my request for poems about birds and said that she would like one about a cardinal. Most...

Some of you may have recognized the title as the words from the middle section of The Beatles’ song A Day in the Life from the Sgt....

Anyway, Kellie and I were walking the other morning as the sun came up. It was one of those gorgeous sunrises that makes a person feel...

Anyway, a family story goes that a mule by the name of “Mike” kicked me in the head when I was a child, and that mulish attack upon my...

Anyway, I have been reading a lot of poetry on websites lately. Overall, the quality is as lacking as one might suspect from social sites...

Actually, I don’t know if a poet ever bit a dog, and that was not really the comment that inspired me to the current consideration. The...

On the back cover of The Joy of Shadows, I wrote that the book is a continuation of The Mercy Killing. That claim is not very fair to...

Okay, so it’s not always the first question that people ask when they discover that I have written and published books of poetry, but...

Have you ever heard of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele? Nah, not many people have. I remember them not primarily as the authors of...

Answering questions some before they are asked. I tend to agree with the author, poet, or critic (probably Yeats or Wilde) who said that...