This collection of fifty sonnets examines the locales and odd characters of Harmon Falls, a small Midwestern town with an energetic history and a present fraught with financial failings and a diminishing population—amidst a setting of natural beauty and tenuously surviving potential.
Ekphrases
(coming soon!)
The process of ekphrasis, basing a written text on a visual art-object, returns in this twenty-two poem chapbook forthcoming soon!
Selected poems from nearly forty years of published and unpublished work include sonnets, jazz poems, city poems, small-town poems, a Tolkien-influenced cycle, ekphrases, and more.
A sonnet sequence honoring Shakespeare’s plays, this book also serves as a crossover between “creative” and “scholarly” composition.
Coming-of-age motifs blend into the experiences of early adulthood in this collection of musical, verbally-refined poems.
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This selection of city/jazz-inspired poems draws on sites and scenes in Chicago—and other cities as well.
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This nineteen-poem chapbook takes inspiration from books, myths, and literary history to bring life back from amidst the dust.
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This thirteen-poem chapbook reflects on places, dates, and memorable monuments using ekphrasis and a cinematic eye.
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A bit of grit and a lilt of jazz—with an undergirding of Milton’s Paradise Lost—this twenty-two poem chapbook sizzles from one midnight to the next with a whole day’s rush and rumble in between.
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