Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).
The online haiku, tanka, and cherita journal Frameless Sky has accepted my haiku poem “In the Salon” for a special issue on the theme of Harmony. The editor is Christine L. Villa. The website for Frameless Sky is https://lnkd.in/gW2ueWZ #haiku#haikujournal#poetry#haiga
The haiku journal Presence, which is based in Sheffield, England, has accepted my poem “Zoom worship” for issue #70. The editor is Ian Storr. #haiku #haikujournal #poetry #zoom
The haiku journal bottle rockets, which is based in Windsor, Connecticut, has published my poem “Sunset” in issue #45. The editor is Stanford M. Forrester. I wrote the first draft of this poem in 1969 and revised it in early…
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