( My minister wife shared this in church this morning and it resonated enough for me that I wanted to share it here. Merry Christmas to all. ) First Coming By Madeleine L’Engle He did not wait till the world was ready, till men and nations were at peace He came when the Heavens were [...]
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Tweets Without Twitter
Posted in Other Stuff, Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged garden, gardening, horror, Reading, Red Sox, Twitter, Writing on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t have a Twitter account. I don’t currently plan on getting one. That would be one more thing to do. But I think it’s interesting. For people in a hurry, with much to do, Tweeting makes sense. Or, possibly, it is an illness that has infected a great many people. But it sure is [...]
Happy Poet
Posted in Poetry, tagged A Sea of Alone, Poetry, small press, Writing on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Look what came in the mail today! This means I can officially say that I am a published poet in addition to a quasi-gentleman and a pseudo-scholar. A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Christopher Conlon and published by Dark Scribe Press is a beautiful little book packed with dark and wondrous [...]
Entering Holy Week through the Palm Sunday Gate
Posted in Faith, Poetry, tagged Faith, music on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve posted before about my difficulties with Easter. The same general issues apply to Palm Sunday as well for me because it is another day typically marked by nice, bright colors and nice, celebratory worship and nice, fancy food at fellowship afterwards. But Palm Sunday is actually pretty rich, provocative terrain for Christians. It’s about [...]
“That Place” – a House of Leaves poem
Posted in Poetry, Reading, tagged fantasy, horror, House of Leaves, novels, Poetry, Reading, Writing on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the fictional author/narrators in House of Leaves is named Zampano. There is a lengthy appendix containing material he produced that Johnny Truant, another of the fictional author/narrators, collected to provide insights into Zampano’s personality. Some of it, as with the rest of the book, is pretty esoteric. But some is much more accessible. I particularly liked this [...]
“Fishing in the Nightmare Pool” Accepted for Publication
Posted in Poetry, Writing, tagged fantasy, horror, Poetry, publishing, small press, The Terror at Miskatonic Falls, Writing on March 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I received the happy news today from editor Karen L. Newman that my poem, “Fishing in the Nightmare Pool”, has been accepted for publication in the Spring 2012 issue of Illumen (Sam’s Dot Publishing). This business of having my poems accepted for publication has become a tad surreal in an extremely pleasant way. Up until [...]
Poetry in Motion
Posted in Poetry, Writing, tagged A Sea of Alone, horror, Poetry, publishing, small press, The Terror at Miskatonic Falls on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Anthologies, that is. Under their original publication schedules, both of the poetry anthologies I’m a contributor to would have emerged during the second half of 2010. They didn’t. That didn’t bother me. Production delays happen. Plus, I have far too much respect for the people who make small press publishing happen. It takes more than [...]
