The last leaves are falling in Manhattan…Michael Palmer & I memorialized  our turning toward nature in fall 2022, during the pandemic with images (his) & poems (mine) in Autumn in a Solitary Time (Audience Askew Chapbooks 2023). Please enjoy this image & poem #chapbook #poetry

Happy Fall! In 2020, Michael Craig Palmer photographed Hudson Valley's fall trees & leaves & asked me to write accompanying poems, resulting in Autumn in a Solitary Time, Audience Askew Press, a celebration of nature's enduring beauty & and of human connection.

Honored my chapbook is a finalist for the Headlight Review Prize, & grateful to Headlight Review for publishing my poem, “On the 56th Anniversary of My Father’s Death,” in the current issue, along with other prize-winning & finalist poems. 1/2

Have begun releasing my classical guitar music on Spotify. Soon I’ll release 2 more “albums.” While I’m not a professional musician, I’ve performed for many years in hospital settings & elsewhere. Here’s hoping you enjoy the music:

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I’m very grateful to Certain Age Magazine for publishing my poem, “Mega-Galaxies.” If you’d like, you can read the poem, and listen to me read it, here:
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My poem “Song of Innocence,” was published in the new issue of Eye Contact, the literary and art Magazine of Seton Hill University. You can read the full poem on page 34.
And be sure and check out the other poems in the issue!
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I’m grateful Cider Press Review has published my poem “The Grasslands.” We fell in love with the elephants when we walked through the Serengeti years ago, sleeping in small tents along the way.

You can read the poem here:

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So grateful “As If It Were My Name,” about my grandchildren, and about the thread among generations, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the amazing Mom Egg Review, launching April 15th.
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Delighted & grateful my poem “In the Morning in the City” appears among these amazing prizewinning & commended poems @Passionfruitlit
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I’m grateful to Lit Fox Books for featuring my poem “Stratagem” alongside two other wonderful poems in their Spring 2025 Lit Fox Poetry Series.

So sad to learn of Nikki Giovanni’s recent death, one of the marvelous poets who contributed to HERE: Poems for the Planet (@CopperCanyonPrs 2019) @UCUSA @DalaiLama. We made the decision in 2019 only to include living poets, & we’ve lost so many great ones since then 1/2

Orbital, Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize 2024 novel about 6 humans orbiting our planet in a spacecraft (@GrovePressUK ) is one of best books I’ve read. The book’s sense of urgency in this time of climate crisis contrasts with growing disregard for the planet by many in power.
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I’m so sorry this heart-breaking poem by the late Jane Meade, “Money,” in Here: Poems for the Planet @CopperCanyonPrs @UCSUSA @dalailama (2019) has renewed  urgent resonance today: “..by then//…The water didn’t belong to the water.”#climatecrisis #ecopoetry