Recent Poems & Commentary

I want to post some poems here more recent than in my books, and to change them periodically. Most literary magazines won’t accept work that has been previously published, including on the Internet, so I can’t post work that is being sent out, and they don’t want work posted that they’ve published in the last year; these poems avoid both those problems. I also thought of adding some commentary, a few words about the origin or process of writing the poem and a note on the form, which may be of interest to some readers.

From Online Publications:

Versewrights 

• Saying the Word
• Comparisons
• The Bread Knife of My Aunt
• On History

Fruita Pulp 

• An Apple
• Two Kinds
• American Lakes Trail

Sage Green Journal 

• I’m Happy
• Little Rooms
• Tonight
• A Message Where Nothing’s Happening
• Later

Mountain Gazette 

• Loving the Way
• The First Sign Among the Men

The Adirondack Review

• The Things of Cezanne
• Earlier Errors
• Meeting a Poet Second-Hand in Seattle
• Whining
• The New-Fangled Chinese Poet

TheBaconReview:

• Evening Report from Philadelphia
• The Visit
• On Nature

Versewrights

• The Trail
• A Suicide
• That Time
• Another Bird

Heron Tree

• “Closing the Book”

Commentary:

• Choosing Where to Leave - Commentary
• Earlier Errors - Commentary
• The Things of Cezanne - Commentary
• On the Trail - Commentary
• In America - Commentary
• What I do for Others - Commentary
• Snow - Commentary