Just in time for my book signing next month, my first ever collection of poetry has just been published on Amazon.com as a paperback and as an eBook. It is also available on barnesandnoble.com in eBook format. A poem is a series of words, emotions, and ideas, tightly crafted and put together in an order … Continue reading Objects: A Poetry Collection
I wrote my own obituary once as an assignment for school and it was an exercise in futility. It was supposed to show me what I really wanted to do with my life and what really mattered to me. The problem, as you’ve probably already guessed, was that it was a construct, and I knew … Continue reading My Obituary
“I’m reading your book right now,” said a work colleague who I didn’t realize even knew about my first published novel. She even said it in passing, as if it was the most casual thing in the world. I smiled, and I’m still smiling thinking about the exchange. The conversation yielded the information that her … Continue reading Novel Reactions & the Surreality Of it All
For a long while, I didn’t write at all. No, it wasn’t writer’s block. I have never had writer’s block. I think it was a sense of general apathy that sucked me under and finally spit me out. At the time I blamed it on life. Things were crazy, and life was imposing its will … Continue reading A Pause: My Break From Writing
A middle-aged writer sits at his desk in preparation for the experience, with pen in hand, a drink just out of reach, and classical music spinning on the record player in the opposite corner. The sound is set on low so as not to disturb the creative process. He will often turn it down even … Continue reading Visionist Theory: My Writing Process
I recall the first poem I ever wrote, I believe I was 12 at the time, and how I thought it was incredibly hard, the hardest enterprise I had ever undertaken up to that point. And I guess it was, trying to craft words into some semblance of order on a page that didn’t seem … Continue reading Naming the Unnameable: An Exercise in Poetry
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