Summer Update

This summer sees some of my old poems, published in decades past, come back into view. In addition, some new pieces found their way online and into print.

To kick off, at the end of April, as part of their 30 Days of Inspiration celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arts and Cultural Council of Bucks County posted one of my earliest poems, “Cargo.” They posted this series on social media – Facebook and Instagram, so it needs to be accessed by signing in to an account there and searching. Although I wrote this poem in the late 1970s, “Cargo” first appeared in Bay Windows in 1988.

“Lumber and Steel,” my poem celebrating labor, found its way to the pages of the “Work” issue of the Lifetime anthologies printed by Pure Slush.

Defuncted Journal, a Medium.com-hosted ezine specializing in providing an online home to previously published poems, nowout of print, picked up three of my old favorites to post: “Back Lines,” “Peeling,” and “Vigil.” “Back Lines” and “Vigil” first appeared in The South Street Star in the early 1980s; “Peeling” was published in the venerable LGBTQ magazine, Christopher Street, in the autumn of 1979.

This summer, another venerable LGBTQ magazine, RFD, published one of my acrostic sonnets, “Forward From Today” in issue 190, their “Words” issue.

Also this summer, my first bit of memoir, “Allegro,” was picked up by Prism & Pen, an LGBTQ ezine on Medium.com.

3cents Magazine published my sonnet, “Cannas,” about one of Warren’s annual garden rituals. 3cents is unique in choosing only three works per issue, chosen to work together in a “conversation” on site—check it out!

This week, Devil’s Party Press published my poem, “Cri de Cœur,” in the “Pathos” edition of their online magazine Instant Noodles. They’ve even included a recording of me reading the piece!

I’m looking forward to seeing more of my pieces get into the world this fall and winter.