Original Poem: Imagined Conversations with People I Love about Trauma
Sean MurphyI appreciate that this one got picked up by Humans of the World, as trauma...
David Crosby: Born to be That Guy
Not sure if anyone was dedicated to being that guy as long or at the...
Original Poem: Pharoah Sanders Donating Blood to Buy Food, 1962
Huge gratitude to the team at Decolonial Passage for including my work in their “Food,...
Jeff Beck: The Guitar Grandmaster
As impossible at it is to believe Jeff Beck has died (aged 78), it’s just...
Original Poem: St. James’s Place
I’ve only been to Atlantic City one time (friend’s bachelor party, obvi) and, admittedly, not...
2022: A Creative Recap
From 1455’s Movable Type, Issue 13 (peruse the complete archives, here). So, what’s next? It’s possible...
Original Poem: In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing
It continues to be a joy and honor to have my work appear –alongside so...
Pelé: Ambassador of Joy
There are two ways to describe what a big deal it was to receive this...
The Fire Sermon: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, Longfellow wrote, and we’d already read it—words largely...
Christine McVie: RIP, Songbird
She was beautiful, preternaturally cool (has any singer of so many incandescent and indelible hit...