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No hay obra en Madrid más barata y que pueda tener un impacto mayor sobre nuestra calidad de vida que esta 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Pleased to have a sonnet in the fine new issue of The Orchards, alongside excellent work by Tim Muller, JL Yocum, and others. Here’s my poem, “Winter Sunrise”:

Thrilled to have a couple of poems in the excellent new issue of Blue Unicorn!

2024 wrap-up: I published some poems in some poetry magazines! Next year I will publish some more! In the meantime, here’s my most recent publication, from Blue Unicorn, a sonnet about mortality and, ultimately, implicitly, rebirth:

This op-ed reminds me of this excellent French book I read last year: nytimes.com/2025/01/03/opi…

Trump's government funding shutdown - Medicaid, cancer research, elementary schools - is cataclysmic by itself. But together with the pardon of the rioters, the firing of the IGs, etc. it's a brazen, transparent effort to seize power. Let's start acting like it.

Really hoping that the rule of law will hold. This is scary stuff. nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/…

It is a bleak, heartbreaking time for Ukrainians—and for all US citizens who understand that it is not only cowardly but dangerous to bow to tyrants.

The opening lines of "Untidy and Simple" by Eric Colburn (Eric Colburn), one of the fine submissions to Poems for Persons of Interest's recent Alliteration Contest. Read the whole thing at the link in the comments.

Had such a fun time last night out in Cambridge with BurlHorniachek and Eric Colburn talking poetry, poetry and more poetry.

Was so busy a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to post this, my second published epigram: tumblr.com/assesofparnass…

I’m visiting my son in Philly this weekend, or else I definitely would have been in Newburyport today to see amazing poets like A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton fall 2025), Brad Leithauser, Alfred Nicol, Rhina Espaillat, etc. newburyportliteraryfestival.org/2025-poetry/

My daughter has smart things to say about her state’s dumb dumb restrictive tax law in the Colorado Times Recorder: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/05/the-hu…

Thrilled to have a poem up in the excellent new issue of Trampoline Trampoline Poetry : trampolinepoetry.com

Up in Vermont, everything is miraculous—the dandelions, swallows, spring torrents, bear cubs… and the old stone walls, some of them hardly noticeable anymore. I wrote a poem about this one a couple of years ago: greeninkpoetry.co.uk/bud-blossom-su…

Listening to Joni sing about drawing a map of Canada—Oh Canada—and dreaming again about becoming a Canadian poet. If only Canadian immigration policy hadn’t hardened up so much… “you’re in my blood like holy wine, so bitter and so sweet…” She is amazing. youtu.be/jqYpK3CFmMk

Father’s Day poem: