I am so excited to announce that a poem of mine, "The Rain Dance," has won 2nd Prize in Blue Institute's Words on Water Writing Contest...

For this final week of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I conclude celebrating my mentor and teacher David Henry...

For the next two weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I continue to celebrate my mentor and teacher...

For the next few weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I will celebrate my mentor and teacher David...

I actually believe I first saw film footage of another monk setting himself on fire before I had even heard of Thích Quảng Đức, the...

On March 28, 1997, I sat down at my desk and wrote a one act play. It wasn’t the first play I wrote exactly, but it was the first one to...

This work contemplates, albeit in a slightly deranged way, the events of protest in the United States in the years 2016-2019. It makes no...

In 1994, I took a pad and pen with me to the movies. I was ten or so and I wanted to keep notes and “review” them, just like Siskel &...

I came of age going to the movies at the turn of the century. In 1999, I was finally old enough to see R-rated movies and my friend and I...

Two devotional poems, in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The first is freely translated from the Latin. The second, freely translated from...

Stephen Sondheim was taken from us in late 2021, but since his posthumous cameo in Glass Onion, the wildly uneven follow-up to Knives...

There are things you assume you know— the waves of emotion, the choice of conflagration or inhumation, the cavern in your heart. But...

Influences on writers don’t have to be writers, do they? As I went down the rabbit hole of thinking about influences on my life and work,...

We were in a critical writing class at Bennington College, circa 2003, and a student was reading a paper that celebrated the then...

Do you ever overhear yourself thinking? Let me put that another way before you click to another site. The late literary critic Harold...

On May 16, 2021, over one hundred family members and friends gathered at the Sumiton Community Center in Walker County, Alabama, for a...

I get into obsessions. After weeks of reading Browning’s poetry, I’ll switch to Sondheim and there will be weeks of listening, humming,...

Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...

I can remember being as young as six and needing books around me constantly, though I wasn't sure I could read well. I liked books, the...

Greetings as we ring out the old and ring in the new! I want to thank those of you who have supported the new website and Facebook page...