Judging Fiction

This week I was honored to read the top fiction submissions to Mikrokosmos Literary Journal, a student-run publication at Wichita State University. My counterpart for poetry is renown poet A.E. Stallings, well known for her classical themes and formal poetry. It wasn't easy to choose the three best, but I…

“You can write, traveling?”

I recently sent a poem I wrote while in Tucson (our first year as snowbirds) to a dear friend and mentor. I told him I had a collection of Tucson poems going. As a world traveler himself, as well as an esteemed poet, he said, "You can write, traveling?" My…

Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems

I'm humbled and honored to be included in this book. Please order your copy by contacting Angie at Art Night Books (email listed below). From the press release: From Superior, Washburn, and Ashland to Racine, Sturtevant, and Milwaukee.  From Door County to Madison and the Driftless area.  Wisconsin, you are…

“Brown Study” wins Honorable Mention

My poem "Brown Study" was awarded honorable mention. It's an honor to be recognized among so many good writers and artists in the latest edition of Wisconsin People and Ideas magazine from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. You can read it online.