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