Hosting!

This morning between 11 and 1pm I hosted the 100,000 Poets for Change reading,

reading two of my own poems "Strange Roadkill" and "Semi-Automatic Suicide".

Thank you Derek Brown, Kimberly Cobian, Luis Villalobos, Christopher Cressey, Carl Stilwell, Beverly M. Collins, Gregory Foster, Scott Kaestner and Seven Dhar for performing!

Publication Reading!

I have a poem titled "Three Hours at the Tijuana Border" published here by...

Kimberly Cobian, also our host for the publication reading tonight in Downey at The Green Salon.

Kudos to my Facebook friends also in this fine book, Lida Abramian, Ava Bird, Jack G. Bowman, Lynne Bronstein, Juan Cardenas, Jackie Chou, Michael Ian Churchman, Beverly M. Collins, Mark Fisher, Michael Gonzalez, Lalo Kikiriki, Rick Leddy, Radomir Vojtech Luza, Scott Nichols, Lorine Parks, Chris Alex Penalber, Cindy Rinne, Linda Singer, Josette Siqueiros, Carl Stilwell, Tim Tipton, Alicia Viguer-Espert, Lynn White, and Jessica Wilson Cardenas!

Publication!

The book  has arrived...

 Sample of my poetry in the book...

Back cover!

Publication!

Thank you Rd Armstrong for publishing my poem "Blue Ramblers" in another of a long line of fine poetry journals you have produced. Can't wait for the publication reading. Congrats to my Facebook friends Lynne Bronstein, Carl Stilwell, Alicia Viguer-Espert, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Mark Fisher, Amélie Frank, Martina Gallegos, Lalo Kikiriki, Ron Koertge, Raundi Kai Moore-Kondo, Marie C Lecrivain, Ellyn Maybe, Daniel McGinn, Robbi Nester, Toti O'Brien, Lorine Parks, Thelma T. Reyna, Kevin Ridgeway, Linda Singer, Apryl Skies, Kevin Patrick Sullivan, Tim Tipton, Murray Thomas, Maja Trochimczyk, and Rolland Vasin for also being published in this issue!

Feature!

Yesterday afternoon I was the featured poet for The Poetry Zone reading series hosted by Virginia Mariposa Dale at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Santa Barbara.

I regaled the audience with tales about and read the eight poems (Memory of Tire; Showing a DVD on the Galapagos to a Ninth Grade Class; Nine birds; What Are You Willing to Do for Love; I'm In Love with This Building; You're an Amusement Park, Baby; Munchies; and The Planet of the Oreos) in my newest book promotion sampler.