Tuesday, June 30, 2026

MARK MELNICK ON BRILLIANT AND EFFECTIVE BOOK COVERS

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  Mark Melnick offers an insightful essay on book cover design and marketing as the July contributor to Marsh Hawk's "Chapter One...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

SANTELMO #14 FOCUSES ON THE "CULTURES OF EDSA"!

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Remember. Never Forget. Never Again. I am honored to be part of Santelmo 14 's special issue on the EDSA People Power Uprising ("E...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

PRE-RELEASE NOTES: COLLATERAL DAMAGE BLUES (2)

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(I’ll be posting here some Notes in anticipation of the 2027 release of one of my most ambitious projects,  COLLATERAL DAMAGE BLUES  (CDB). ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

PRE-RELEASE NOTES: COLLATERAL DAMAGE BLUES (1)

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(Since I’ve slowed on using this blog, I plan to revitalize it by posting on here some Notes in anticipation of the 2027 release of one of m...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

DRAWING THE SIX DIRECTIONS

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  Recently, I was heartened to have an artist pay attention to my book of drawings  DRAWING THE SIX DIRECTIONS . This is one of my most igno...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

A NEW BOOK: THE EROTIC SPACE AROUND ART OBJECTS

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 I'm grateful to Sandy Press for publishing my newest book, a short story collection: ESSAO is uniquely ekphrastic (art inspired by oth...
Monday, March 2, 2026

ON WRITING A NEWSPAPER POETRY COLUMN

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 For the past year or so, I've been writing a poetry column for my local newspapers. I discuss why I did it and what I learned in this e...