Phlubbermatic: What's New!!

The 2024 edition of Tidings from Anomaly Poetry is out, and includes my poem "My Great-Grandfather's Horse".

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Looking ahead, my poem "Shelter" has been accepted for publication in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of Lily Poetry Review.

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On the 13th day of October, 2024, I had the great joy of being part of this amazing thing, Visual Inverse 2024. 22 poets responded to 22 works of art in the annual juried show at the Plymouth Center for the Arts (Plymouth Mass.). The whole event was captured by the local cable access channel. Every writer brought their A-game, and the entire video is well worth watching. But if you're in a hurry to see my bit(s), I read my poem at the 32:30 minute mark, then make another (surprise) appearance at about 53:50.

Visual Inverse

If you want to know more about the artist who created the piece that inspired me, check her out here:
Becky Haletky.

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The writer in his natural habitat.

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The latest issue of Nixes Mate Review is out now, and includes my poem "So Much Depends".

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Two Steps Ahead, my latest short story, is now available at Confetti Magazine!

The Fall 2024 edition of eMerge is out, and includes my poem "Lost In The Fall"!

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I have poems in three new anthologies. First, from the monthly open mic event Pour Me A Poem in Mansfield Mass, their first anthology of poems from people who have read at the event. I'm thrilled to have "Eternity Must Be Jealous of the Present" on page 33! This event is my poetry home and just celebrated its second anniversary!

Second, from the fabulous Anomaly Poetry, "Divided" appears in Cat Ladies Against Facism!

And, from Slightly Off-Beat Poets out of Webster MA (and surrounding towns), I've got three(!!!) poems in Many Voices ~ One Stage.

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Short story "It's Later Than You Think" is available now in the super cool (and FREE!!) October 2024 issue of Book And Pieces magazine.

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Rituals, a journal from Anomaly Poetry, includes two of my poems, "Fall Into Her Eyes" and "Crossing Generations"!

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My short story "When Rose Met James Michael"....

... at Esoterica Magazine, joining "The Man Who Lives In 6C" and "In Yorktown, Her Name is Sharon" which they published previously!

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So honored to have two poems in the inaguaral issue of Sinkhole, a journal "dedicated to prose and poetry in which the writers freely explore themselves or worlds unlike our own." Look for "I Remember The Blood, Mostly" and "And Yet, We Sing"!

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My short story "A Romany Funeral" is available at Half and One Magazine, joining "Remember Forgiveness" and "The Dry Years", which they published a few monts ago.

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The beautiful journal Coneflower Cafe, availabe now from Choeofplirn Press includes two of my poems, "Raymond Carver's Toaster" and "Dr. O'Little"!

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1/11/2024 - Video of me reading at Pour Me a Poem Open Mic in Mansfield, MA:

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I'm almost always at the Pour Me a Poem open mic event in Mansfield, second Thursday of every month (email me for location and details, or find Pour Me a Poem on Facebook); Poetry the Art of Words open mic in Plymouth, second Sunday of every month (except July and August); and Poetorium at Starlite, last Thursday of every month in Southbridge.

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Click here to see my appearance on For The Love Of Words, from Easton Community Access Television, from 2/16/23.

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Some photos from prior events:

Feature reading at Slightly Off-Beat Poets, in Thompson CT 2/11/24.