Essays
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The World Is God’s Language, first book highlighted in new Santa Cruz Writes blog…
It was great to see that Hannah Hutton, editor at Santa Cruz Writes' phren-Z literary magazine, chose my new book for the inaugural blog highlighting Santa Cruz, California authors. It provides access to a wide range of reviews, readings, and more: https://www.santacruzwrites.org/santa-cruz-books
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Why I Love Tony Hoagland – Essay in The ICONOCLAST
A new essay-blog about the poet Tony Hoagland – his essay "Towards a Post Modern Humanism" – appears in The ICONOCLAST (#115). It's about consciousness as well as literature, society as well as poetry, with a little Zen thrown in. Why I Love Tony Hoagland: A Review of “Toward a Postmodern Humanism”and “Twenty Poems
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MIRAMAR #5 Winter 2017: Reprint of TriQuarterly Essay, “The Manifest Destiny of Language”
Christopher Buckley's marvelous "old school truth & beauty" journal, MIRAMAR, has just re-published an expanded version of my original TriQuarterly essay entitled: "The Manifest Destiny of Language". It includes profiles of four Santa Cruz based poets: Ellen Bass, Robert Sward, Joseph Stroud, and Gary Young — as well as a nod to Gary Snyder, an exploration
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TriQuarterly Essay: The Manifest Destiny of Language
In TriQuarterly, a new essay of mine profiles four Santa Cruz poets whose work has greatly influenced the California, and national, poetry landscape: Ellen Bass, Joseph Stroud, Robert Sward, and Gary Young. It begins with commentary about the current "state of poetry" in a post-modern world, butting up against the western coast with no where
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TOP 10 Commentary Pick at CONTRARY Literary Journal
This was a fun surprise….CONTRARY magazine celebrated its 10 Year Anniversary by choosing the top 10 pieces of writing in each genre it publishes, including one called Commentaries. An essay of mine from a few years back, entitled Prepare To Believe, was chosen. It's about a trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky that my
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New Essay – THE CHURCH OF POETRY – at Contrary Magazine
In addition to poetry, I do write essays from time to time, and a new one entitled THE CHURCH OF POETRY was just published at CONTRARY Magazine's Blog, due also to appear in their winter edition 2014. It's a bit irreverent, which is part of what makes CONTRARY Magazine fun…at the end of the essay,
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Turning Wheel publishes new essay on Buddhism & Basketball
Turning Wheel is a magazine published by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship in Berkeley, California. It is an organization focused on nurturing compassionate social action as well as meditation. The Summer 2010 issue includes an essay of mine, entitled A Buddhist in Hoosier Country: Finding Harmony through Politics and Basketball. A Buddhist in Hoosier Country
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Two Essays in CONTRARY Magazine
In addition to poetry, I occasionally write short essays, or commentaries. Two essays have been published recently in CONTRARY Magazine, an on-line publication from Chicago edited by Jeff McMahon. PREPARE TO BELIEVE recounts a trip with my daughter to the Creation Museum near Cincinnati, a fascinating glimpse into Biblical literalism, and my own journey out