Original Poem: I Want to Write Poems
Sean MurphySo, I wrote this poem exactly one year ago, today — and it’s now live,...
Original Fiction: In My Cups
Big thanks to Flash Fiction Magazine for publishing “In My Cups,” a short, sad piece...
Original Poem: After Chester Higgins’s “Bowery Denizen, 1985”
Chester Higgins has been using his extraordinary talents for decades to document America (the cities,...
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...
Original Poem: South Loudoun Street, Mid-Afternoon Saturday
As part of the ever-evolving 1455 adventure, in 2019 I began spending considerable time in...
Original Poem: The Insane Dog in the Alley
This is a sad poem about a sad situation (and one we’re all familiar with,...
The American Cauldron
America has always been a cauldron of inconsistencies; so often in our history we’ve ended...
Original Poem: Howlin’ Wolf’s Harp
It was a huge thrill to have my poem “Billie Holiday’s Deathbed” published (and nominated...
Here’s The Thing, at 40
In the early summer of 1982, two distinct entities from outer space infiltrated planet earth....
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Repose en Paix
Talk about a legend from the old school. Jean-Louis Trintignant was already a big screen...