Our tradition began in 1992: My wife selects, from among poems I have written during the year, the one she considers most appropriate to send to friends and relatives with our holiday greetings. Sometimes the poems are personal or family-oriented, but often they deal with social or historic events of the year in question.
1992: In Memoriam
1993: Inundation Rhapsody: Midwest 1993
1994: Ceremonies in Time and Space
1995: Home Improvement Prayer
1996: Monastery at Wadi Natrun
1997: Gift
1998: By the Way: Poems over the Years
1999: Mother and Child on Board
2000: Last Rite
2001: Fallout
2002: Fountain
2003: Speaking
2004: Recovery
2005: Katrina Watch
2006: Bullet Holes
2007: Late Season
2008: Labyrinth
2009: Every Day The World Starts Again
2010: Southern Living
2011: Salvator Mundi
2012: Time Found
2013: The Real You
2014: Grandfathering
2015: Canker Worms
2016: Pieto
2017: Solutions
2018: Outside the Eye
2019: Mountain Man
2020: Corona Prayer
2021: When You Went Missing
2022: What I Would Like
2023: Artificial Intelligence
2024: Whittling