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Help Make My Fiction Publisher Happy

Help make my fiction publisher happy by driving up sales of my books, The Appointment  and Letters From Inside.   The Appointment is a “contemporary tale of alienation, bureaucracy and merciless academia”.  The novella’s protagonist, Professor Withers, has been compared … Continue reading

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Publishing Panel Recording

Here is a link to last night’s publishing panel with Rich Follett and myself: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/mpslTgpth90Ovbq4Ru2z7Ge0q_fUixRJo9h84revzqBB1nQW7mbwRuL6OJoNe9z0.aBJH2jrGUD1T-6y4 The passcode is: 20&G%Fwg

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Publishing Panel 8 PM EST Tonight

Join me, Michal Mahgerefteh and Rich Follett for a discussion on how to publish your poetry. Use this link to join on Zoom: Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81269072634?pwd=enRWSTB2Y2x3ZktCSTAwUjgwcFpvQT09 Meeting ID: 812 6907 2634Passcode: 686538One tap mobile+13017158592,,81269072634#,,,,*686538# US (Washington DC)+13126266799,,81269072634#,,,,*686538# US (Chicago) Dial … Continue reading

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The Book of Form and Emptiness – A Review

Here’s my latest review in Washington Independent Review of Books — a review of The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. Read t. Then read the book.

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cloudism redux

In the last couple of months, I’ve been going through my extensive collection of books and files, all of which will eventually be donated to George Mason University’s library. One of the items I came across was a CD which … Continue reading

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Passacaglia

Peter Campbell-Kelly, a violinist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham, England, recently shared this beautiful film with me: The piece is a passacaglia by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber and is performed by Campbell-Kelly himself. His message to … Continue reading

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For All You Russofiles

Here’s my latest book review: a review of Love Like Water, Love Like Fire.

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A Poetry Reading Sponsored by The Poetry Society of Virginia

Please join me on Sunday, June 13 at 2 PM EST for a reading with Katherine E. Young, Kim B. Miller, Katherine Gotthardt and Farin Powell. Join Via Zoom:Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84698842808?pwd=WFMzYTUwZUxRaG5aRSttV0FDMnBkQT09Meeting ID: 846 9884 2808Passcode: 104418One tap mobile+13126266799,,84698842808#,,,,104418# US (Chicago) … Continue reading

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A Reading from Let’s Call It Paradise

On April 25th, I gave a reading at the River Road Reading Series in Eugene, Oregon via Zoom. Here is a recording of that reading. Let’s Call It Paradise will be released in the coming weeks by San Francisco Bay … Continue reading

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A Poem by Adefeyintola Adesegun

What Do You See We grew more than our age And it happened so fast, Within a blink of an eye A quick second. Before we had toys and video games Now it had become shrapnels, Of the grenades that … Continue reading

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