“Threatened by Beads” and “The Color of Your Skin”, two of my poems in Red Ink: International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities, on the topic of Native Americans, racism, colorism and prejudice. Pick up a copy, as there are many great artists and writers yet again in the Winter 2016 edition. Just got […]
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Poem: “Siblings” & The Story Behind the Words
SIBLINGS A wall-eyed young girl in a party dress with carefully combed dark hair, brushed tears away from a narrow pretty face drawn with misery. Maybe the cause was a word spoken, or a series of them, a mentioned memory, person or place. Maybe it was all of those things for After giving a deliberate […]
Poem: Her Children
Her Children When you were the little boy in the white dress scattered with lilacs, which was no different than your pirate costume with the fake mustache, You pretended to faint when the young man from your favorite story appeared at the height of our field with the brilliance of the sun at […]
One of my Influences: Yevgeny Yevtushenko & his poem “Party Card”
It’s one of the few physical books I carry with me when/wherever I travel, whether I have just a rucksack with my stuff in it or a suitcase: a book of selected poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. From famous poets & poems website, the author bio: “Born in Siberia near Lake Baikal in 1933, Yevtushenko is […]
Thank You to Assaracus Magazine, Sibling Rivalry Press: For Acceptance of My Poetry
It’s part of a writer’s life, more so than non-writers or those who’ve never submitted or aimed to make writing a profession: R-E-J-E-C-T-I-O-N, all caps. For every one acceptance you receive, most writers have had hundreds of “no’s” for that same work(s), even some of the authors who’ve gone on to be listed as some […]
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