Monday, February 28, 2022

Hell, I'm going to answer Richard Fox's questions too, as we're features in 2/22's Boston Literary Magazine


    Two years after Big Table Publishing was started by Robin Stratton, Boston Literary Magazine began. I have strong positive feelings about Big Table, as they published five of my books so far. 

    Boston Literary Magazine has been a print journal, an on-line journal and the new awakening is having spotlight features. Today I was featured with Richard Fox, in February 2022's issue. , where each of us were asked three questions. 

Click the link to see how I answered: 

Do you have a favorite dinosaur?

What has been the biggest setback in your writing career?

What do you consider your best poem and why?


But when I clicked the link, Richard answered two different questions, so if I can indulge myself here, I'd like to answer his:



BLM: Where were you when you heard John Lennon had been killed?


I was in an apartment on College Avenue, in Newark Delaware. I was watching in my room, Patriots-Dolphins, and Cosell announced it. A lot of people got the news from Monday Night Football. My initial reaction was 'who would assassinate a musician?' It was just crazy.





BLM: When people ask "What kind of poetry do you write?" how do you answer?


My poetry is very language, sound, and metaphor based. I write visually, but image wise in the actual writing falls behind in frequency. Language is fun. I love word-play, and double meaning as well as explosive, interesting words themselves....words I'd never use in everyday conversation






Friday, February 25, 2022

...and the back cover

 I can't wait to hold the whole thing in my hands. Just a few more months...




Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Cover (not finalized) of Joe the Salamander, coming June/July 2022

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Here's some good stuff from the "making of" this novel-where I tracked the progress of the original first draft (complete with story hints, images and comics.) 

Monday, January 3, 2022

Winter 2022-Fiction for Wilderness House Literary Review--and all the rest

      I've shown the full list of but since the Winter 2022 Issue is out today--that fiction is listed below, (and below that, all the rest from 2016-2021, and a link for 2008-2010). The journal has been getting four times the amount of submissions since the 2008-2010 span, and triple the amount since 2016. 

WHLR 64st  Issue (Volume 16, no 4)-January 2022

  



WHLR 63st  Issue (Volume 16, no 3)-October 2021


WHLR 62st  Issue (Volume 16, no 2)-July 2021


WHLR 61st  Issue (Volume 16, no 1)-April 2021



WHLR 60th issue (Volume 15, no 4) -January 2021


WHLR 59th issue (Volume 15, no 3) - October 2020



WHLR 58th issue (Volume 15, no 2) - July 2020

WHLR 57th issue (Volume 15, no 1) - April 2020

WHLR 56th issue (Volume 14, no 4) - January 2020

WHLR 55th issue (Volume 14, no 3) - October 2019

WHLR 54th issue (Volume 14, no 2) - July 2019

WHLR 53th issue (Volume 14, no 1)   April 2019

WHLR 52th issue (Volume 13, no 4)  January 2019

WHLR 51th issue (Volume 13, no 3)  October 2018

WHLR 50th issue (Volume 13, no 2)  July 2018

WHLR 49th issue (Volume 13, no 1)  April 2018

WHLR 48th issue (Volume 12, no 4)  January 2018

WHLR 47th issue (Volume 12, no 3)  October 2017

WHLR 46th issue (Volume 12, no 2)  July 2017

WHLR 45th issue (Volume 12, no 1)  April 2017

WHLR 44th issue (Volume 11, no 4)  January 2017










Thursday, December 30, 2021

My year in Publishing, Readings, Podcasting, and Dire-ing (ALL OF THEM)


Books

2020 Poems, January, 2021, Big Table Publishing




Fiction

August 1, 2021 Paper Teller Diorama Anthology
(Great Weather for Media Books)


"Disremembering", June 25, 2021 Punk Noir





Poems

December 27, 2021Oddball Magazine


December 24, 2021 Constellations v. 11: Redirections


June 28, 2021Ibettson Street #49


March 15, 2021Molecule, Spring 2021


March 1, 2021Grey Sparrow’s Ten-Year Anniversary: Catch the Moon


March 1, 2021 Dead Mule School of Southern Literature


February 2021 Bagels with the Bards #14


January 2021 SOS: Surviving Suicide: a collection of poetry that may save a life




Non-Fiction/Essays

October 1, 2021, The Epiphanies Project: Twenty Personal Revelations
"Going From Important To What Was Really Important"




Virtual Appearances/Podcasts

July 21, 2021, WANA Live hosted by Damian Dressick and Christina Fisanick

October 12, 2021, The Oddball Podcast hosted by Jason Wright

December 27, 2021, The Epiphanies Podcast (for The Epiphanies Project) hosted by Samantha Perkins



Virtual Appearances/Readings

January 2021, The Writer's Voice hosted by Linda McHenry

February 28, 2021, Book Launch for 2020 Poems hosted by Robin Stratton

March 10, 2021, Stone Soup Reading hosted by Chad Parenteau

March 14, 2021, Reading held by New England Poetry Club

April 18, 2021, Rockport Poetry Festival Reading hosted by Robert Whelan (video in middle of blog)

April 24, 2021, Virtual Speak Easy hosted by Kelly Donovan

May 8, 2021, Lit Balm hosted by Mark Vincent and Cassandra Atherton


Hosted Forty-Two episodes of Virtual Fridays Dire Literary Series

See January-March

See April-June

See July-August

See September-December




Tuesday, December 28, 2021

The most read Blog Posts of 2021 from my "News"

      Tis' the Season when Top Ten Lists of the year are presented. Before I unveil my  Top Ten viewed blog posts, lets not forget the Top 10 Christmas Urban Legends seen on the below video (such as tics on Christmas Trees causing Lyme Disease). Speaking of video, Urban Meyer did not make this list, though he probably made a lot of Top 10 Video lists for  2021 for his viral dancing video.  Now how stupid can you be?  And speaking of stupid did the joy of the stupid, "Let's Go, Brandon," chant make it on any smart list?  No.

On my list below, all the links work, and they'll bring you back to the original post, which you can re-read or just read for the first time,  if you are interested. 

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Here Are the Top Ten Most Read Posts from 2021