2024 NEWS

The Yooper Poetry anthology is out! Our book launch was held at the library in Marquette, Mi. on April 23, 2024 as part of the Great Lakes Poetry Festival.  [Our editor Raymond Luczac's ASL interpretation of my anthologized poem "Tonight" can now be enjoyed live here: TONIGHT​! Please enjoy our long distance collaboration!]​

                                                       
                                                                  MORE in '24...!

                 PUSH! : A New Journal of Social & Political activism has moved to Substack...  

  Drop in & get a free subscription!  Be sure to start your PUSH!  journey with the Introduction!                                                             



                                                         2023 News
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12-15-2023 : I'm currently contracting for 8 new poems to appear in a 2024 Yooper Poems anthology (Modern History Press) - stay tuned for more ahead!

12-1-2023 : The first two issues of PUSH! are out! Here's a link to PUSH! on Weebly.

Fall 2023, I have poems coming out in the new Scurfpea Anthology and in the inaugural issue
​of Bear Paw Arts Journal. [click red title to read]

June 8, 2023 reading at St. Ignace, Mi. Library was fun - stay tuned for more ahead!

6-17-2023 note : Finally! Here's a link for the short films: "Kitty Trip & Skywalk"!
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"Revolving Doors: My Short Covid Career," an account of my breathless days working at a hospital during the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, debuted in the Summer 2020 issue of Rain and Thunder.

In both 2018 and 2020, I was humbled to be awarded a monetary poetry prize from the Writing Center at Saginaw Valley State University.  My poems "Late-Winter Walk Around the Pond"  and "Northerner Plays with Fire in Water"  [pg. 71]  were published in their annual literary journal Still Life.  The prize award parties were held at the Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum (2018; kicking off the Theodore Roethke Poetry & Arts Festival) and at the Saginaw Art Museum (2020), with a poetry slam included.

I finally finished up my double-short film project, it debuted on MCTV in late-2020. The two mini videos are called "Kitty Trip" and "Skywalk."  So okay, maybe I didn't learn as much as I'd hoped from my first film, but at least I had fun making these two new shorts come together.  *Just click here: New viewing link!

In a recap of 2019...
I made a film based on my prize-winning poem "Late-Winter Walk Around the Pond"; it can be viewed HERE!


As always...
Check out my chapter "Billie Jean King" in the book 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Stars and Their Stories (ABC-CLIO); and don't forget to pick up the poetry anthology I edited How Can You Say We Are Not Related? And, of course, my co-authored collection From the Lonely Cold is still available from Scurfpea Publishing as well.


       PLEASE STAY TUNED THRU 2024!


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