Contemporary American Voices features four of my poems and three better poets

Lisa Zaran has been featuring poets monthly on Contemporary American Voices, for nine years and the cool thing about this site is that she allows her features to feature other poets which they admire. This month I am the feature. Here are all the works, including the four of mine.

That's the good news!

With that I had the honor to pick three poets which I know to be amazing, each of them selecting three of their poems. They are Rusty Barnes, Teisha Dawn Twomey and Mary Benson.

Rusty Barnes

Mary Benson

Teisha Dawn Twomey

That's the bad news!
The bad news?

Well, it's really good news, but these poets poems are so good, that they should be featured on the site if readers feel that there is some sort of hierarchy. That's how I feel about it. It's sort of like a Brian Scalabrine basketball skills camp (see satirical 30 for 30 with Brian) with special guest, (in smaller print) Dr. J.

I'm very honored to have my work appear next to poems that blow me away. Check out their amazing work!

Teisha Dawn Twomey and I tell the real, I mean the fake story in The Cape Fear Review

Usually, stories do not begin in a room where the hairdryer is secured to a wall, but this one does and it's a sad one. That's how it begins. It ends with " I’m sorry my love, so sorry, sweet darling."

Being Aesthetically Pleasing is Teisha and my third published co-written story. This one was driven by Teisha, and I felt I was just in for the ride, co-piloting with various bridges, connections and transitions which helped make it work. Thanks again to the kind folks at Cape Fear Review. We are no longer scared. 


Ooooooo nice

Ibbetson 35 is out, with the late Ed Galing on the cover

Doug Holder and Harris Gardner have done it again. Honored to have my poem, "About Making Love" in this print issue.

About Making Love                

 by Timothy Gager
 
Something released, birds
flew homeward, better than
pigeons homing, better than
cages, we talked about
vexing inward, in land
there is dark
lit tunnels, shadowy, deep,
we talked about
making love, comfort,
and about birds.

Also in this issue, Michael Collier, Marge Piercy, Brendan Galvin, Ted Kooser, Daniel Tobin, Laura Cherry, Lawrence Kessenich, Irene Koronas, Kathleen Spivack, Ralph Pennel, Teisha Dawn Twomey, Richard Hoffman and many more friends and poets I'm proud to be associated with

To order it go to the publisher's on-line bookstore