Performance

A bearded man in black sweater and black pants stands near a cardboard cutout of Edgar Allan Poe, reading a poem from a sheet of paper. Five poets sit on folding chairs in front of picnic tables prepare to read. David Milley speaks from a podium in a dimly lit bar. A sign on the wall says Fergies. A white-bearded man in a green tee-shirt speaks from a podium in a library room.

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“Trefoil,” winner of Honorable Mention, October Project Annual Poetry Competition for 2026, at the World Above Open Mic at Noyes Art Garage of Stockton University in Atlantic City on July, 15, 2026.

   Instagram photos and videos • World Above Reading Series (@worldabovepoetry)

“No Heaven of Animals” for The Selkie’s “Stories of Rebellion” issue contributors’ launch reading. The second poem I read here, “Phoenix,” did not appear in The Selkie, but was first published in Discretionary Love, February, 2023.


“If I Go First” as published in Tunafish Journal, on YouTube


And, for something completely different, here’s a look at me singing onstage, with the inestimable Bob Essock, in the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus Holiday Show back in 2009:

“Mr. Snow Miser / Mr. Heat Miser”