Field Recordings

How cool is that?  Opening a lit mag's set? Especially Grub Street, regional & national...A first for me. Originally written during a quotidian project, the final draft was winnowed from almost two and a half pages.

The "Tiresias Poems" from All My Rowdy Friend s are featured in this anthology about myth and magic, folklore and legend.  You can read about it and buy it here.

This month the Good Men Project have one of my poems up: Children Love the Dumps , which is also featured in the United Kingdom's oldest literary magazines: Oxford Poetry, which you can purchase here.

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My flash fiction story, "In Some Northern Town"  appears in this month's Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones. The story is about a mother who kidnaps her daughter's child to baptize the baby. The story is told from the POV of children who happened to be at the christening when the mother was arrested. It takes place in the future, in the world of the stream. You can read it here. Another streamworld story was published earlier this year here.   Empty Oaks published The Play's The Thing, about a young woman named March Hayes who meets a mysterious man at an underground Shakespeare play. Shakespeare, is  banned in the future, and the language moves March, and the audience to break the law and risk treason. Stream, a collection of these stories can be viewed here.

I owe the Alpine Strangers a kickass dinner for all the work they have done on All My Rowdy Friends , my first perfect bound collection of poetry from Punks Write Poems Press, out of Chesterfield, VA. One of the books themes is sickness, and this little poem, though only a few lines long, has an expansive sensory galaxy of associations. The Alpine Strangers tapped into some of those sensory associations for your listening pleasure. You can buy All My Rowdy Friends here , and here . You can like my Facebook author page here . Electronic versions of my chapbooks are available through Amazon. You can also contact me about purchasing chapbooks from me directly.

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is a mess, but don’t get sucked up into the negative criticism hype. This movie is for fan boys and girls, not critics, and much of the movie (it’s not a film... Batman Begins was a film, The Dark Knight was a...you get it) is ripped from video games, or graphic novels, and thrown into a blender. It is a comic book movie and capitalist hype machine, and though it is getting bashed, it really isn’t any better or worse than Avengers Age of Ultron, or Iron Man 2, or The Amazing Spider Man I & 2, Spiderman 3, or Thor: Dark World, or etc, etc, etc. The critics are exhausted with nerd culture, because nerd culture has taken over the entertainment world. The summer has been the traditional season of superhero flicks, and Batman V Superman is akin to Walmart putting out the swimsuits in March. And this event, as everyone knows, is just one stone in a long road of Marvel, and DC, not to mention Star Wars and Jurassic Park films to endure. I imagine c...