Category Archives: My Poetry

Taking Heart

I’ve taken heart recently, creatively speaking, from three books: Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare,  Alan Sepinwall’s The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Forever, and Keith Richards’ autobiography Life.

From Greenblatt’s very readable and fascinating biography of Shakespeare, just how much Shakespeare stole plots/basic ideas from other existing plays or stories. (I knew he had done so sometimes, but didn’t realize quite how much.) Creative lesson: you don’t, necessarily, have to reinvent the wheel. Continue reading “Taking Heart”

Beatdom arrives in the mail

Just a note that the latest issue of Beatdom, in which you can find one of my poems, “Rambo’s Bohemia,” (along with a Patti Smith interview, essays, other poetry and more)  is now out. Got it in the mail today. (If “publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for an echo” (Don Marquis) then a single poem in a literary magazine would be, well, quieter, but I am of course happy to point out that it’s dropped nonetheless!) You can either download to Kindle or order the old-fashioned paper version.

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