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DC Comics.

Courtesy of Cooch Behar Magazine.

Island.

Wonderful news.    Local Gems Press has selected my poem “The Secretary” to appear in its upcoming anthology, The Eagle and The Maple.  This will be a special collection highlighting the work of American and Canadian writers — I’ll be delighted to see my writing showcased alongside that of our neighbors to the north.

The Eagle and The Maple is available for preorder here at the Local Gems Press website.

Thank you, Maddie McGivney and James P. Wagner, for permitting me yet again to see my work in another quality literary anthology from Local Gems Press.

Oil on panel.

I am so sorry to have to share some terribly sad news here.  I spoke recently with a family member of Matthias Kruger,  the truly wonderful publisher at Newington Blue Press in Germany.  Our friend Matthias has passed away very suddenly due to a heart attack.

If you were lucky enough to know Matthias, then you know how important he was to so many creative people.  He was an easygoing, sublimely good-natured man whose love of literature was cheerfully contagious.  This was best evidenced, of course, by his outstanding work on Newington Blue Press’ BUK100 series — a beautiful series of elegant chapbooks commemorating the legacy of Charles Bukowski.

If you are anything like me, you hope that Mathias is somewhere tonight kicking back and having a beer with ol’ Buk himself — who is doubtlessly pleased by the way Matthias encouraged countless others to enjoy the writer’s work.

I am so happy to share here that Cooch Behar Magazine in India has published my “Hardy Orchids Haiku” in its new Orchid-themed anthology.  You can purchase it at Amazon right here.

As always, thanks to Editor Sourav Sarkar for allowing me to see my work showcased by this outstanding indie lit publisher!

Penguin Random House (United Kingdom Branch).