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Poet • Essayist • Educator • Consultant

Take refuge on this path
the page gives you to roam.

Hunker down against
the shadow cast by prayer
and build yourself a line
that won’t efface itself.

Language is not wine.
You cannot pour it freely.

It All Connects

Repost - Israel and Palestine: Whose Side Are You On?

Repost - Israel and Palestine: Whose Side Are You On?

I am talking about two very different areas of concern, one that has to do with the oppressive and murderously unjust behavior of a nation state, and one that has to do with an ideology that targets Jews worldwide, regardless of what their position on Israel and Palestine might be.
Maybe I Do

Maybe I Do

In Memoriam, Veronica McGinley
A Belated Gratitude

A Belated Gratitude

It never occurred to me that he might have been telling me those stories because he saw them as a way for us to connect in ways we hadn’t been able to do before...
The Power We Pretend Not To See - 1

The Power We Pretend Not To See - 1

"To me...the error is in thinking that the impulse to self-erasure that the nightingale and the dervish feel so passionately resembles love even remotely."
The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma

The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma

—Based on a talk I gave on a panel in 2017 at the Western Maryland Independent Literary Festival
Why I Write "It All Connects"

Why I Write "It All Connects"

...because it represents the vantage point from which I make the connections that matter most to me.
Four by Four #50

Four by Four #50

Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
The Kind Of Courage These Times Call For

The Kind Of Courage These Times Call For

not from poets in particular, but from poets no differently than anybody else
Four by Four #49

Four by Four #49

Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
Poetry Versus Propaganda: When a Poem Devolves Into Rhetoric

Poetry Versus Propaganda: When a Poem Devolves Into Rhetoric

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. —Audre Lorde, “Power” Back
Four by Four #48

Four by Four #48

Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
Round Up #3: “Four Things to Listen To” Issues 1-15

Round Up #3: “Four Things to Listen To” Issues 1-15

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