Category Archives: Reality

“You Once Felt Gigantic”, New Ohio Review, Fall 2019, recent audio recording

Comedy, Death, doubt, Existence, Future, Humor, Life, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Religion, Thoughts, Time, Tragedy, World, Writing

You Once Felt Gigantic

“Consoling The Whims Of The Tiniest, Whiniest Dictators”, highly-commended for the 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition

Comedy, Father, Friendship, Happiness, Home, Humor, Life, Love, Marriage, Metaphor, Parenthood, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Stars, Thoughts, Time, Writing

My tiny whiny dictating children and I would like to thank Kathy Miles for selecting this poem for 10th place — obviously in honor of the greatest soccer player in the world, Lionel Messi — in the Welsh Poetry Competition. Congrats to the winner Estelle Price for her wonderful
ekphrastic poem “iii”.

http://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/winners-2021/

“Babu Bangladesh!” by Numair Atif Choudhury

Animals, Death, doubt, Existence, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Form, Friendship, Future, Home, Humor, Inspiration, Interview, Life, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, Paradise, philosophy, Reality, Religion, Sea, Thoughts, Time, Tradition, Tragedy, Trees, Violence, War, Water, World, Writing

You should order this novel RIGHT NOW. It is BRILLIANT.

https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ANumair+At+if+Choudhury

“Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” (which first appeared in “America”) wins the Telluride Institute’s 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize

Animals, Home, Life, Marriage, Metaphor, metaphysics, Nature, Parenthood, philosophy, Poetry, Poets, Reality, Science, Thoughts, Time, Trees, Writing
2020 Fischer Prize Winners Announced!

It’s an extraordinary honor to have “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling” selected as the winner of the 2020 Fischer Poetry Prize! A special thank you to judge Claire Blotter and the Talking Gourds crew for making my 2020 a little less horrible, and congrats to all the other finalists!