THE BLACKENED BLUES, One Poem at a Time: Charles Mingus’s Miracle
Sean MurphyI’m happy to announce that my first poetry collection, The Blackened Blues, is available wherever you buy books (yes, *wherever*, so you don’t have to put more money in Rocket Man’s…
THE BLACKENED BLUES, One Poem at a Time: Charles Bukowski’s Bounty
I'm happy to announce that my first poetry collection, The Blackened Blues, is available wherever you buy books (yes, *wherever*, so you don't have to put more money in Rocket…
Original Poem: Henry Chinaski’s Horses
True story: when I arrived at Noepe in spring 2016 for my year as artist-in-residence, my goal was to work on a novel, and I had a box worth of…
Original Poem: Booker Little’s Deliverance
It's been an honor to continue receiving the support from Jerry Jazz Musician, who have published another of my poems (previous poems here, here and here). This one will be…
The Blackened Blues: A Q&A
Question: where else would you possibly find a party that pulls together such compelling and disparate company as Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, Liz Taylor, Tina Turner, and…Captain Ahab?…
Introducing “The Blackened Blues”
It's a pleasure to announce my first collection of poems, THE BLACKENED BLUES, will be published this summer. The promotion game is a necessary evil, but part of the literary…