Poetry

My Poems Online

To see the poems I’ve published here on this blog, you can click here.

And here are some links to some poems I have written that are available elsewhere online (not on my own blog):

Black Forest After Black Friday (The Imaginative Conservative, 11/25/2016)

Layers, Layers, Layers (A Birthday Love Poem) (The Imaginative Conservative, 3/16/2013)

Into the Ashes (The Imaginative Conservative, 2/13/2013)
On Ash Wednesday

Chanson d’infini (Progarchy, 12/26/2012)
This was originally written in 1996.

Shipping Charge (The Imaginative Conservative,12/6/2012)

In the Kitchen, After Work  (The Imaginative Conservative, 11/10/2012)
This was originally written in 1994 with first line as title.

Poets I Love to Read

Here are some of the poets whose work I most enjoy, or who have profoundly influenced my own writing in various ways.  Yes, some of them are “singer/songwriters,” but I include them here as poets.

  • Bruce Cockburn
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Richard Brautigan
  • Stephen Crane
  • Julia Kasdorf
  • Wallace Stevens
  • Bob Dylan
  • e e cummings
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Emily Dickenson
  • T. S. Eliot
  • Shel Silverstein
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Andrew Marvell

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