Easton Book Festival 2020

This year’s Easton Book Festival will be online, and go for a month from October 14-November 15, 2020. The full schedule is available at www.eastonbookfestival.com. (Events) I am happy to be on the EBF board, helping out and organizing events. We are also sponsoring programs through Lehigh Valley Poetry, including … read post

Beast Crawl Uprising 2020

On October 24, 2020, there will be a virtual poetry marathon reading, Beast Crawl Uprising. “Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012, we, Beast Generation writers, lived a never-ending literary feast. We gathered in the Mission, at the street corners (16th … read post

Reading: Wanda Morrow Clevenger

“She writes like a reader.” I recently received “This Same Small Town In Each Of Us” (Embracing The Human Condition) by Wanda Morrow Clevenger published by Edgar and Lenore’s Publishing House in California. A collection of prose, memoir, and poetry, it was a needed change from many of the essays … read post

MiCrow: Labor Of Love

MiCrow was a flash fiction side project that I produced for a few years, edited by my dear friend Michael J. Solender who did an amazing job. It ran until 2013 and contained “ebook” pdf downloads of issues with HUNDREDS of stories. They are still online today, at www.fullofcrow.com/microw.  At … read post

“white vases”, john swain

“white vases”, john swain Poets navigate with labels. It is just a part of the deal as people try to make sense of their associations and perhaps figure out their own sub-sects. What we find, however, is that poets surprise us and like all artists, poets evolve. We have to … read post

“watch the doors as they close”, karen lillis

A reprint of my post on “Watch The Doors As They Close” by Karen Lillis, from 2012. It was published by Spuyten Duyvil Press. About Karen Lillis If you don’t know about Karen Lillis, then let me use a few lines to introduce you because she is somebody that you … read post