THE BLACKENED BLUES, One Poem at a Time: Charles Mingus’s Miracle
Sean MurphyI’m happy to announce that my first poetry collection, The Blackened Blues, is available wherever you buy books (yes, *wherever*, so you don’t have to put more money in Rocket Man’s…
Introducing “The Blackened Blues”
It's a pleasure to announce my first collection of poems, THE BLACKENED BLUES, will be published this summer. The promotion game is a necessary evil, but part of the literary…
National Poetry Month #17-19
April, according to this poet, is the cruelest month. April, according to these lovers of poetry, is National Poetry Month, and the only cruelty is metaphorical (which isn’t to say T.S. Eliot was being…
Three Original Poems, published by Sequestrum Journal of Lit & Arts
Sequestrum, Issue 18 Of course you can, and sometimes should, judge a book (or, in this case, a literary magazine) by its cover. The latest issue of Sequestrum, a journal…
Musings from Martha’s Vineyard: Introductory Notes
I've allowed myself a week to settle in and readjust to life outside a cube, outside the beltway, outside any previous experience. It's surreal, but it's real. It's happening. I'm…