New Publishing at RADIUS

Pleased to announce the publishing at "RADIUS: From the Center to the Edge" of my poem "The Machine Stops", initially inspired by E.M. Forster's short story of the same title. You can read it here.

NEW: Translation Collaborations

Announcing a new section I'm hoping will be of interest to you: I've been getting my feet wet in the grand river of Poetry Translation - always a big interest for me but never having the proficiency to translate myself. My knowledge is limited to high school Spanish, a semester of college French, Italian in Junior High and a lifetime of opera; German also from opera; Latin from the Catholic Mass; I also have a tiny smattering of Sicilian - the only language other than English that I have a truly decent knowledge of is a bizarre Albanian-Sicilian dialect which I understand but cannot write and can speak only under dire circumstances (!) ===================================== Now, thanks to upcoming novelist Rosaliene Bacchus, I've been collaborating on the translation of Portuguese poets - that is, Brazillian Portuguese. It works like this: Rosaliene is fluent in Portuguese and provides me with a literal translation. I then gather information on the poet, hopefully including audio, and use my smatterings of romance languages to develop what I consider a replica of the original in English, So far, we have done 4 collaborations and they are all posted on Rosaliene's fine website, "Three Worlds, One Vision". Click here for the site and then click onto "Poetry Corner". October, 2012 features our latest effort. The others are under "Archives": July, 2012; April, 2012; and July 2011. ===================================== I hope you will take a look at both the poetry and the many interesting features on Rosaliene's site. This has been quite an adventure which I hope to continue and expand - Comments, as always, are welcome.

New Publishing Notice

Pleased to announce that the print journal Naugatuck River Review,out of Massachusetts, has published my poem "My Dear Laurie" in their Summer/2012 issue. Here are the first 2 lines followed by the last 3 couplets -- Go ahead, kid, cry / all you want. // .... You tell that pal of yours, / you know who I mean,// that short skirts don't count/ if you wear panties, and// tell her to have another bourbon/ on me - and to watch over my kid// ===================================== Naugatuck is a beautifully done glossy of narrative poetry, published twice a year - their website is NaugatuckRiverReview.com

New RE-PUBLISHING Online

The re-publication of a favorite old poem, "On Being Slow" is now at Ralph Murre's cool "Little Eagle" site: http://littleeaglereverse.blogspot.com I hope you will enjoy this piece - thanks for reading.

New Poem at RUSTY TRUCK

A new political/societal poem of mine, "Invisible", has just been posted at that great site RUSTY TRUCK - hope you will take a look - comments welcome. To get to the site, click here and scroll down the Poet List on the right.

New Poetry Publisings

2 announcements: THE LONG POEM MAGAZINE out of London is publishing a favorite poem of mine, "Mary Meets Marty" this month. It's a 7-part piece, each in a different traditional form. I was invited to the January 18 launch, but, alas .... Regardless, here's a link to their site: LongPoemMagazine. Click on "online shop" to buy issue# 7 - sorry, nothing is available online but if you'd like, email me (to your left) and I'd be happy to send you a proof copy.

Also this month, FULL OF CROW just published my 3, more recent,"Orange" poems - you can read them and print if you like here.