Creative Writing

Poems Published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes and failed haiku

Guest Editor Hemapriya Chellappan just published my senryu “Walnuts” in failed haiku 82 (October 2022): https://failedhaiku.files.wordpress.com/2022/09/failedhaikuissue82.pdf Also, Editors Bex O’Brian and Rebecca Johnson published my poems “Suicide in March” and “Jana Pleads with the Moon” in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes with…
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Article about “What Makes Good Poetry?”

Editor Kyna Hart of UpJourney has included my comments in an article about “What Makes Good Poetry?” Here is the link to this essay:  https://upjourney.com/what-makes-good-poetry‍ ‍#poetry, #originality , #specific, #images, #structure, #strikingimages, #rhyme, #freeverse

Forthcoming Poems in MockingHeart Review and American Writers Review

Two different literary journals have recently published or accepted my poems. Editor-in-Chief Tyler Robert Sheldon of MockingHeart Review just published “Packages and Gifts.”  Poetry Editor Wayne Benson, Editor D. Ferrara, and Founder Patricia A. Florio will publish my poem “Leaving…
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