Ongoing Projects

I'm (still!) working a memoir, Down From Buffalo. It's about my growing up in Buffalo, New York, and my wonderful, sometimes intense family, and the dynamics of the men and women around me, and trying to figure out how I ended up being a poet, of all things.. It's also about my hometown too, a place recently referred to "Loserville" in a series of articles in The Buffalo News. Buffalo tries hard--very hard--and people are good to one another, but winning and success are never guaranteed.

I could cite many examples, but really all I need to say is, ahem, Scott Norwood.

Several chapters have been published in various journals, including Wazee and Georgetown Review, which selected a chapter called "The Prelude Summer" as a runner up in their 2005 Writing About Vocation essay contest.

And then there are these two projects, which seem to take up a bit of certainly joyful, always engaging, time.

Recent and Upcoming Publications

A poem entitled "The Facts of Running" will soon be a part of Denver's Poetry In Motion program, where poems will be displayed as artwork on city buses. It'll cost you $1.25 to see it.

Speaking Engagements, Teaching, Etc.

I had the distinct honor and pleasure of being the keynote speaker at the Colfax Community Network's fall luncheon. In the fall of 2006, I worked with the CCN kids on a poetry project, "No Ideas But In Things," during my fellowship at PlatteForum. If you're curious, here's a draft of the speech.

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