October 9, 2021, my book launch for my new poetry collections, Small Sovereign and Slow Phoenix, filled the Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA) with jazz music and a poetry
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I’m thrilled to announce that a short story by Tove Ditlevsen, titled “The Umbrella,” was published in this week’s edition of The New Yorker (Online and print, October 25, 2021).
The New Yorker Publishes Ditlevsen, Interviews Michael Favala Goldman Read More »
Thank you to everyone who showed up to listen in and support ‘The Poetry Ritual,’ a Zoom celebration of three years of The Poetry Critique Meet-Up, which has been running
[VIDEO] 19 stellar poets – The Poetry Ritual 2021 Read More »
I am currently working on a new translation project of a work by Tove Ditlevsen, author of The Copenhagen Trilogy. Many thanks to World Literature Today for publishing an excerpt from
‘To be in love is a luxury that demands a certain surplus of vitality’ Read More »
The Poetry Critique Meet-Up has been running twice per month since June of 2018. It’s hosted by the Northampton Center for the Arts with the support of Straw Dog Writers
An invitation to The Poetry Ritual Read More »
In the summer of 2016, I was passing through Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen with my wife, on our way home after a visit with family. We stopped to browse the
The Gift of finding Tove Ditlevsen Read More »
“Her language is very clipped and accessible. It is not the voice of someone who is suffering. It is the voice of someone who has her wits about her and
‘It Is Not the Voice of Someone Who Is Suffering’ – an interview on Well-Versed with FSG Read More »
Reality It’s not going anywhere and it’s too big to see all at once so we examine one small area or use a compass or take a picture anything to
Reality and I want You | Poetica Review 2020 Read More »
My grandfather did not fight in WWII, as he worked developing radar for the Navy Until he came home different one day, and was taken away for shock treatments and
Just This | Lunch Ticket, Winter 2021 Read More »
Let me state the obvious: Increasing peace in your life increases peace in the world maybe not by much, but God doesn’t appear to be biased against increments considering the
Peace | Silkworm, Summer 2018 Read More »
