Mar 6

A “Best of”

Over the years I’ve been fortunate to find online publication for stories, poems and photographs with the wonderfully diverse and...

Jan 23

January 23, 1945 – WWII European Theater

I’m warm at home in Bon Air today, typing this with a cup of coffee on my table and my pup Buddy sleeping at my feet. Quite cozy. And I...

Jan 10

RIP: Terry Bisson

Boy, this winter’s getting rough. Just learned that another old friend and great soul has passed, the almost famous writer Terry Bisson,...

Jan 9

My new book: WWII Mortarman

This is my dad at age 23 on the Franco-German border in Alsace, hours away from what would become 150 continuous days of battle in the...

Aug 5, 2023

In Case You Were Wondering

Re the recent malignant re-writing of the Florida history texts, thought I’d share this clarifying photo from the 2020 protests here in...

Jul 31, 2023

Happy News!

Just learned that my story collection Last Rites has been made available to all the public libraries in Virginia through their Indie...

Nov 19, 2021

Little bit of promo here.

My 2020 poetry collection Yearnful Raves, which unfortunately came out just as covid hit, is now on sale at Amazon for 50% off (just...

Nov 6, 2021

New Mad Swirls

Just a quick announcement this morning in thanks to the tireless and intrepid editors at the online multi-media journal Mad Swirl. ...

Jun 8, 2021

Beach Reads!

For your Summer reading pleasure, hope you’ll consider books from my growing NeXTeXT collection, all listed on this website. With last...

May 31, 2021

Announcing: Poems by Sarah Knorr

The last time I saw my friend Sarah Knorr was a month before covid shut everything down. We met at my favorite bakery Sub Rosa on Church...

Dec 6, 2020

My mother’s memoir, properly published

Available in paperback (https://amzn.to/36KG0Li) or e-book formats (https://amzn.to/2VGPmBF). #autobiography #localhistory #memoir

Apr 18, 2020

Book People Promo

Thanks Book People, Richmond, VA for stocking my debut poetry collection and for advertising it on your site, just in time for National...

Mar 16, 2020

River Shadows – a poem

One way I’ve been spending my Covid-19 home confinement, building little readings of poems from my new collection Yearnful Raves...

Aug 18, 2019

Book Launch at New Dominion in Cville

When I started work on my debut novel The Coal Tower (https://amzn.to/2HcegCg) ten years ago (there were previous novels, of course,...

Jun 8, 2019

Post-Reading Glow

Visiting the Outer Banks this weekend to hang out with son Nick, who’s ocean rescue life-guarding for Nags Head again this summer, and...

May 31, 2019

Reading at Book People

#bookreading #booksigning

May 25, 2019

Book Signing Event

Book People Book Shop at 536 Granite Avenue in Richmond, VA’s West End is hosting my first ever book signing (and reading) on Saturday...

Apr 15, 2019

New Poem

The creative folks at Mad Swirl have posted a new poem of mine, and with it they’ve set up a display page just for other work I’ve sent...

Feb 16, 2019

Introducing my new story collection

https://amzn.to/2EdeE2a Jacket Copy: Ernest Hemingway wrote, “All stories…end in death.” With ringing lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry...

Nov 22, 2018

Novel Launch!

So happy to announce the launch of my novel The Coal Tower, available now on Amazon in paperback or Kindle versions (you can request the...

Prose & Verse

Reading my Writing

The Birdman of Central Park - a story

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River Shadows - a poem

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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire - a poem

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Reading from The Night Doctor of Richmond - Book People bookshop June 8, 2024

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Videos & Photography

The Dazzlement - a poem

A poem based on a photograph of kids at Fork Union Baptist Church Sunday School, 1960.

WPFW-FM On the Margin interview with E. Ethelbert Miller discussing The Night Doctor of Richmond

Prose & Verse

Reading my Writing

Videos & Photography

The Dazzlement - a poem

Radio Interview