“That’s our way of life here, that we can’t question spirit,” Lakota Chief Arvol Looking Horse said. “So, every day in our tradition we honor that good mind.” Prayer, from sunrise until deep into the night at Oceti Sakowin Camp, infuses the spiral of life, the whirlpool of mystery, in native song, dance, eagle feathers… Continue Reading
“A Just Verdict”
Caveat Lector Magazine has selected my short story, “A Just Verdict”, for publication in it’s Winter 2016 edition and, with the magazine title’s latin meaning of “ let the reader beware,” I couldn’t be happier. Good writing should shake and romance and inspire the reader to greater depths, higher highs, more empathetic lows; it should… Continue Reading
Indigenous People Show All Of Us The Way To Climate Justice
In North Dakota, the Dakota indigenous people and their allies are pushing back stalwartly and nonviolently against the Dakota Access Pipeline or DAPL. They have been brutalized by attack dogs, arrested and put in jail, though, they have also caused social justice victories in getting President Obama as well as a Federal Court to postpone… Continue Reading
Licking River Review
I often seek to perch a phoebe on my shoulder as I write creatively and, quite evidently in the cover artwork below, so do the good people at Licking River Review! Northern Kentucky University’s student operated annual literary journal has selected my poem “Just On The Other Side Of The Candle And The Ray” for publication… Continue Reading
Ignatian Literary Magazine Release Party
Check out the serendipitous bell chimes we experienced while I read my poem “One Way To Enlist For Duty In WWIII” at Ignatian Literary Magazine’s release party. One of the attendees came up to me afterward to suggest it felt like a “Hemingway moment.” Continue Reading
One Way To Enlist For Duty In WWIII
In these especially violent times I’m thrilled to have my antiwar poem “One Way To Enlist For Duty In WWIII” selected for publication by the University of San Francisco’s Ignatian Literary Magazine that is spirited and edited by students! Continue Reading
A Way
Fire, the flame of poetic passion us poets must fan relentlessly, add kindling when necessary, stoke the embers with our tongs, always repositioning burning-down logs, adding new timber, split from felled trees, even as we plant new ones, many, many more than we consume, for the oxygen they spray is everything. And this is why I’m… Continue Reading
Vincent van Gogh in a Field of Wheat With David Foster Wallace
The muse, she is within you, she is within me, and certainly she shakes our complacency, she is indeed disquieting. Without her there would only be barren fear and hubris. So, I am overjoyed to have my poem “Vincent van Gogh in a Field of Wheat With David Foster Wallace” selected for publication by DMQ — Disquieting Muses… Continue Reading
Two Celestial Bodies That Are Not Temporal
It is such a pleasure having my poem “Two Celestial Bodies That Are Not Temporal” selected for publication by Diverse Voices Quarterly journal of poetry, prose, and art. A publication dedicated to celebrating humankind’s diversity through creative expression is a place where the bridge can be built across the abyss. Yes, it is. Enjoy the cover art of its current… Continue Reading
Waiting
Crack the Spine literary magazine has chosen my poem “Waiting” for publication in its Summer 2015 Anthology print edition! This poem first appeared in CtS’s weekly electronic literary journal, and now has been included as part of their most select publications over the summer 2015 time frame. I so look forward to being in such quality… Continue Reading