SONGS FROM HERE

I will be the featured poet on Sunday, September 15th at 3:00 p.m. at the Denmark (Maine) Arts Center for the “Songs From Here” performance. “Songs From Here is a Maine-based initiative that supports locally-written art song. We celebrate the creativity of our fellow Mainers in high-quality performances taking place across the state, featuring the… Continue reading SONGS FROM HERE

Driving Through Vermont with L.

I was honored by poet Judy Kaber selecting this poem from My First Beatrice for her poetry column. Read it, and her marvelous introduction HERE.

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Book Launch

Join me for a book launch/reading on Friday, July 5th at 6:00 p.m. in Longfellow’s Garden in Portland. I will be accompanied by poet friends Mike Bove, Betsy Sholl, and Kevin Sweeney. MORE INFO

Poem on the radio

Listen to “Off Paxil, I Revisit a Box of Old Photos and Letters”, featured on Poems from Here on Maine Public Radio.

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from My First Beatrice

STORM IN MAINE Rain on the roof, the Atlantic a mile away. Dark liquid coursing through arteries— rivers rushing toward flood stage. When the sky’s all water and earth’s flowing to catch up, what’s the difference? Wide awake after midnight in a little house of wood by the sea, my craft in the storm, what’s… Continue reading from My First Beatrice

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Newer Poems

read Cribstone Bridge, Bailey Island Maine & Outskirts in Innisfree Poetry Journal     LISTENING TO JOHN COLTRANE WITH MY BABY DAUGHTER To praise you is the desire of man— Augustine again—and who am I to disagree Holding my eight month old At the embered end of a fussy winter afternoon When she finally settles… Continue reading Newer Poems

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