Many thanks to the 662 Goodreads members who showed #booklove by entering my giveaway for Under the Kaufmann's Clock: Fiction, Poems, and Photographs of Pittsburgh, with photos by Rebecca Clever (Six Gallery Press). TWENTY copies soon will be winging their way to winners in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, New York, Washington, North Carolina, Florida, California, Missouri, Utah, & New Mexico! They will bear autographs and contain a one-of-a-kind surprise.

Today brings me a double scoop of literary goodness. VOX POPULI, a website for political poetry and prose run by Michael Simms of Autumn House Press and Coal Hill Review, has featured another of my poems from Arab on Radar (Six Gallery). "If We Live" is complete with a vintage photo of my grandfather, Toufik Traad Kmeid/Ellis:
http://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/05/15...

I will be continuing my blog posts and book reviews on a weekly basis. Next up, the pleasures of audio books.

Arab on Radar
Under the Kaufmann's Clock: Fiction, Poems, and Photographs of Pittsburgh