My latest poetry collection, Here’s Plenty from Cervena Barva Press, is readily available from bookstores and Amazon. For more information, click here. I have given a variety of readings from this book. It was recently a featured by the London 20s and 30s Book Club in the UK.
Unter der Sonne / Under the Sun (Deutscher Lyrik Verlag, 2021) showcases my German poems with English translations. For more information, click here.
I have given readings from Here’s Plenty here in Charlotte, in Lancaster, South Carolina, Huntersville, North Carolina, on-line with Red-Headed Stepchild, emceed by Malaika King Albrecht, and on-line with Visions International, emceed by Cal Nordt. I also read at MacIntyre’s Books in Chapel Hill.
A fun development: My poem “Love in a Time of Corona” was selected as part of the set of the new production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Creation Theatre in Oxford, England. Their production included contemporary love poems mounted in the Forest of Arden. Wish I could have been there to see it!
Last fall I presented poems at a variety of on-line readings in Connecticut, New York State, and Philadelphia, as well as in person here in North Carolina. Poems have appeared recently in The Healing Muse, Sanctuary, and several other magazines and anthologies.
I am pleased that two of my German poems, “In der alten Bibliothek” (“In the Old Library”) and “An Rilke” (“On Rilke”) appear in the spring 2026 issue of Trans-Lit2, a literary journal in German.
During spring 2026 I have read a number of poems at in-person and on-line poetry gatherings from Charlotte to Philadelphia and South Carolina. Particularly meaningful was the America at 250 concert at Aldersgate, which included American classic music from Revolutionary Days to the twentieth century, historical recollections, and the reading of my poem, “Democracy.”
In April 2026 I gave a workshop presentation called “Revising and Shaping Your Poem” at the monthly meeting of the Charlotte Writers’ Club, of which I once served as President. I enjoyed the positive feedback, getting to chat with some old literary friends, and looking closely as a group at the poetry writing process.
In July 2026 I will read poems at the International Lawrence Durrell Society Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. It will be fun to see all my Durrellian friends and to read poems saluting Canada and Egypt.
Also in July 2026 I will participate in the annual North Carolina Writers Conference in Durham, North Carolina. This year I am serving as vice president of this special group.
On September 23, 2026 I will offer a workshop on the “Alchemies of Revising Poetry” for the Charlotte Center for the Literary Arts. It has been a while since I have given a workshop with this group, and I look forward to sharing with talented poets in their new space.