Poetry Laurels

In the spring of 2004, I drove to Santa Barbara every week with a tape-recorder to interview Henry Brant (b. 1913, d. 2008), one of th...

Some people… wrap themselves in a thick blanket of irony of sarcasm and greet every expression of sentiment or affection with a sneer....

April showers, May flowers... and birdsong. During the Village Poets reading at the La Crescenta Library, my fellow poets formed a chorus...

Have you ever had the feeling that you've done what you were supposed to do in life and everything else is a bonus, a desert of so...

Fire and Fire Whoever invented Easter Bunny that lays Chocolate Eggs on the lawn was not thinking through the rather dismal consequence...