Original Poem: After Chester Higgins’s “Bowery Denizen, 1985”
Sean MurphyChester Higgins has been using his extraordinary talents for decades to document America (the cities, the country, and all the people who populate it) and the wider world (check out…
Boris the Spider: Farewell to a Fop and a Fraud
So many contemporary pols—particularly right wingers—seem to acknowledge that throwing red meat to the tigers they ride will eventually be insufficient, their half-hearted embrace of the bullshit they spew seen…
Original Poem: South Loudoun Street, Mid-Afternoon Saturday
As part of the ever-evolving 1455 adventure, in 2019 I began spending considerable time in Winchester, VA. I loved being somewhere where you could hear (and sometimes see) the train…
Original Poem: The Insane Dog in the Alley
Abandoned dog lying on the ground This is a sad poem about a sad situation (and one we're all familiar with, as it doesn't just pertain only to our canine…
The American Cauldron
America has always been a cauldron of inconsistencies; so often in our history we’ve ended up with brilliance, tolerance, and progress only after every other option has been exhausted. We’re…
Original Poem: Howlin’ Wolf’s Harp
It was a huge thrill to have my poem "Billie Holiday's Deathbed" published (and nominated for a Pushcart Prize) by Decolonial Passage and I'm equally happy to see my new…
Sui generis, on the rocks: Christopher Hitchens, Ten Years On
The best way to compliment a writer, as a reader, is to recommend their work to others. That I wholeheartedly do –and have done. The best way to compliment a…
Original Poem in Anthology, This Is What America Looks Like
It's an honor to appear in the wonderful anthology, This is What America Looks Like, a true labor of love curated and published by Washington Writers' Publishing House (a 47-year-old…
Original Poem, “Adaptation,” in The Wayfarer
I always associate Homebound Publications with my dear friend and amazing poet Linda Flaherty Haltmaier, as they have published two (awesome!) collections of her work. It was my pleasure and…
Original Poem: What Gets Heard When Men Won’t Speak
I'm immensely grateful to the excellent team at The Good Men Project for publishing this poem. (Stay tuned for more in a series on the theme of toxic masculinity.) What…