I received my first radio for my fifth birthday. I was born in 1953, thus, have lived the entire age of rock & roll to date. I lived in a house filled with music. I slept with my brown transistor radio under my pillow. Sometimes it picked up Cousin Brucie or some West Virginia bluegrass … Read more
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m sixty-four… In 1967, the Beatles released When I’m Sixty-Four. I was about to be 14, my mother was pregnant and due in the late fall. I was the oldest of then four, I had just entered 9thgrade at Levy Junior High … Read more
For the fifth year, I have attended the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and returned home filled with inspiration and joy. This is my favorite poetry event, year after year, and I encourage friends and colleagues to attend! I am never disappointed, always enriched. This year, I presented a round table discussion with my dear sisters Antoinette … Read more
–> It was a cold evening, ABC’s Monday Night Football on the screen in my lover’s living room. I don’t like football so I was curled up with a book, my head nestled between the padded cocoons of the headphones plugged into the receiver, big as those huge ear protectors the guys on the tarmac … Read more
It was a Friday night. I was at the Downtown Writers Center preparing for our weekly poetry reading. A flash on my screen announced that Paris was under siege. But the reading must go on… Photo from L.A. Times article, Mon. 11/14/15 Later I watched the news, once again bereft, waiting for the faces of … Read more
62, I wake to a zit… At about 4:30 this morning, I woke the first time to the rain. I considered that there was a cleansing of the past year around the sun, preparing me for the solar-year journey ahead. 62 years I have made this move into another year of my life. I have … Read more
Today is the day that I officially launch my newest book, Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities,” published by Tiger Bark Press (www.tigerbarkpress.com) at the Downtown Writers Center of the Syracuse YMCA, 340 Montgomery Street, at 7 p.m. After the reading and signing, we will join at Flame, 713 E. Fayette Street, to continue … Read more
Dave at the desk is what I wait for, Monday – Friday nights. Not the monologue so much, or the interviews. It is the 5 minutes of desk time when Dave addresses concerns. This is the essence of the most outrageous, sublime, sardonic, ridiculous, touching, agitating. For most of the past 35 years, I have … Read more
The magic that transpires in a classroom, no matter the age of the student, is the fuel that pushes all teachers through to satisfaction in their chosen profession. As we see the fruit of our sharing come forth in our students, even students who are adults, the knowledge that we have done good work soothes … Read more