New book coming out from Vibal Foundation this September 2025!

Change is good!

Reading Fanny Howe.

Saw a hawk the other day. Don spotted it first, flying over the sea. It must have been a bad omen. Here is a poem by Linda Gregg, in “In the Middle Distances,” which I am reading along with “Refusing Heaven,” ni Jack Gilbert.

We were.

Reading the poetry collection, “Ordinary Beast” by Nicole Sealey has changed my life.

I can’t remember liking a book of poems this much since “Sakura Park” by Rachel Wetzsteon.

And I do poetry for a living.

The first rule of poetry is honesty; the second is fuck you.--Alice Notley

My handle comes from the revelatory lines of this poem by Philip Larkin.

It’s been three years since my second poetry book came out! It’s still out! Happy to report I’m happier now than in writing of this book of confession. Everything comes in threes.

It’s been six years since I published my first book “The Sea That Beckoned.” Much migrations have changed us as a world but the poetry remains the same.