SF Jazz Reading
Not only is Floyd Salas on the bill, performing his usual kick-ass poetry, but I will be performing my piece “NO-Body” with Catherine Matovich, violinist extraordinaire, on violin. We pl...
California English
What was basically my blog post of November 20, 2012 (the one with the dripping faucet), though modified, was published in California English: The Professional Journal of the California Association ...
Monterey Reading
Floyd Salas and I will be reading, along with Diana Garcia, on February 27, at 7 p.m. at the East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington Street, in Monterey. The Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium P...
Communion
My poem, “Communion” appeared in Phati’tude, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall, 2011: Bridging the Cultural Divide: Remembering September 11th. They lift bread as an offering But really it is the body ...
The Orange-Eating Lady
My short story, “The Orange-Eating Lady” appeared in The Rattling Wall, Issue 2, Winter 2012 [link]. It begins thusly: It is said that everyone has a core belief, a philosophy of life by which all...
First Words
This is the first of a series of blogs on the crucial importance of first words in a fictional piece. Attend any writers’ conference and one or more of the agents on the faculty will expound at leng...
Murder Most Soothing
W.H. Auden’s confession to being a “guilty” addict in the famous Harper Magazine article of 1948 (“The guilty vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict”) gave a certain cachet to ...