It’s been a minute. So I have several things to report…
First off: I have a poem, “The Moonless Night,” in the beautiful new hardcover anthology AWhale of a Time: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, published by Nosy Crow.
You might like my brand new, darkly humorous, illustrated essay, “Mr. Grimsby,” which was just published in Cutleaf. It’s about a dark visitor who’s familiar to many of us…
A poet-robotโฆ a chain-smoking seductressโฆ a dying connoisseur. All of these characters and more make appearances in my new collection of poems and drawings, Plumstuff, out today.
Plumstuff is a reinvention of my out-of-print debut Plum Stuff. It contains 20 revised poems from that collection plus 40 new onesโโโand all-new drawings.
Poems and drawings from Plumstuff have appeared in The Walrus, Rattle, The Saturday Evening Post, The Wall Street Journal, Transition, The Feathertale Review, The New Quarterly, Quarterly West, The Antigonish Review and other outlets.
Hereโs what the critics are sayingโฆ
โThis is a book for those who truly love words.โ โ Cloud Lake Literary
โBursting full in its depths.โ โCinnabar Moth
โSit with these poems โฆ give them a 2nd or third go-round. Let them marinate the brain a bit so you can fully savor the flavor.โ โThe Poetry Conversation
Also โ I have a poem (about lunar pastry) in the forthcoming hardcover childrenโs anthology Whale of a Time: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, due this fall. Other contributors include Maya Angelou, Hilaire Belloc, Roald Dahl, Edward Lear and Ogden Nash, so Iโm in good company. The cover is very nice, too:
Just letting you know about my first NFT collection, The Connoisseur. It’s an assortment of entirely text-based NFTs – mostly poems (including the above poem), along with a handful of very short stories.
Stranded astronauts … unfrozen authors … beautiful music… There’s something for every taste – and budget.
As a Kinsman, I help raise funds for special equipment and travel assistance for life-saving procedures for children and adults in dire need. Like my little friend Miss Blake, above, who taught this clumsy bear how to dance.
Miss Blake is a paraplegic and wheelchair user with complex medical needs. She loves to dance and race her wheelchair.
For her 4th birthday, Miss Blake is asking everyone to donate to her campaign for Telemiracle, the foundation that’s helped her so much over the years.