On The Wings of Dreams

I’ve just completed a new website at wingsofdreamsshop.com. This one is for a shop in my hometown of Shepherdstown, WV.

On the Wings of Dreams is a beautiful little shop located in historic Shepherdstown, West Virginia. We offer a broad selection of gifts, and tools carefully selected to be of help to spiritual journeyers. Crystals; books [...]

The Carnival Show

In a previous post, I outlined some ideas for a spoken word routine where I’d like to emulate the lyric qualities of one of those sideshow, carnival “barkers”. I’m also interested in the role: being outside of some place, pitching the sensory experience to be had within, where description is everything.
I’d like to continue outlining [...]

Tangled Strings

Come one, come all
To the puppet show
Only a handful of strings
Can move it on its way!
A hand full of strings
Can move it, anyway.
Puppets are marvelous things,
What dance! What sing!
And for all to see
So come one, come all
To the puppet show!
Take your seats
The price of admission’s not free
Every ticket’s on a string
Just pull it. You’ll see.
What [...]

The Outside Talker

For a while now I’ve been wondering about a theme to use with a spoken word performance. A theme, a main idea, or a character.
I’ve been reluctant to simply read my poetry into a microphone. Even musical accompaniment wouldn’t cheer me up too much about the idea. I want to do something more like what [...]

Performing at the University of Baltimore

I have been invited to attend the release party of this edition of The University of Baltimore’s Literary Magazine, Welter (on Tuesday, May 16th) and to perform “Eviction.” My poem by that name was recently accepted for publication by the Magazine.

They Don’t Write Odes

I looked through large bound books
for a line
a word or two
but none of them were you
they don’t write odes for one like you
because, if they do
then there’s songs for everyone
all at once
and all the same
but that’s not you
so none of them will do.