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...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

A BALIKBAYAN BOX FOR THE BALIKBAYAN ARTIST!

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Is there even a more appropriate companion to my Author copies of T HE BALIKBAYAN ARTIST than a sculpture of a miniature balikbayan box?! E...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

PUBLICATIONS READ IN 2025

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  In   2020 , I read 403 books. But after 2020 I began focusing my writing on novels and not just poems. As a result, my reading dropped dra...