Gentle readers, I am ashamed to say that the summer solstice has passed, and I haven't bought one ice cream cone yet--neither hard nor soft, plain or with mix-ins.

Later this week, when my 9-year-old niece and 13-year-old nephew pull me around the Liberty Bell in steamy Philadelphia heat, I will give in, with pleasure!

But I have experienced a double scoop of literary happiness. This past Saturday, "Landscape"--a poem from Under the Kaufmann's Clock: Fiction, Poems, and Photographs of Pittsburgh--was featured as the "Saturday Poem" in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, both in print and pixels, with a luscious daffodil illustration as a topping. Thanks to P-G poetry editor Lori Jakiela for making this selection:

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2...

And just this morning, "Federal Building," a poem from Arab on Radar, was republished in Vox Populi, an ice cream-rich daily website of political poetry and prose. (It is the fifth of six poems from this book chosen by Vox Populi editor Michael Simms.)

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/06/2...

Onward to our nation's first capital city!