another new poem } from The Fireplace Chronicles
I am feeling all inspired today, two new poems. This doesn’t happen often anymore.
Anyways on the the story, I started a series poem about 12 years ago where I wanted to explore some of the times I spent at a bar in DC I frequented and still do. I found a lot of inspiration hanging out there. I discovered another side of my poetic voice there. I composed many of the poems that made up my thesis and God in Flight. But most of all I found a group of people that I cherish and feel honored to call friends.
As I am working on the revision of God in Flight for April release, I have been coming across a lot of discarded poem scraps or ideas. The following poem is one of them I collected into a Word file called The Fireplace Chronicles. I do not remember if this were to be a book, a sequence, or a chapbook. All I know is that when I re-read this I had to revisit and complete.
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god in flight } available in trade and ebook now
My first collection of poetry, god in flight, is now available online to order in trade paper back or eBook format. Originally published in 2003, this collection went out of print sometime 2005. I have republished the original book with a variation on the cover for a limited time. I am completing a revised and expanded edition Spring 2011.
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still parts way here { god in flight
I was born & raised in Danville, VA where I graduated from Averett College in 1994. Moving to Washington, DC to pursue my interest as a poet, I spent two years in George Mason University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry program. In the fall of 1994, I wrote the three poems which proved to be a major shift in my poetry. The poems proved to be a watershed later that winter, summer, and into the following fall.
During my three semesters of study with Carolyn Forché and Susan Tichy, I had written a set of over one hundred poems that had a unique voice that spoke to the discourse between our physical desires, our spiritual quests, & our heart’s longing for connection. Each poem identified an antagonistic search for love/sex/god in a world dominated by prized physical desire of an “other.” I collected a set of them for my thesis class in the fall of 1995. The collection was well received by my classmates and my professor and the critiques brought further insight to both my writing and the collection. After the course was over, I put away the collection.
As I continued writing, the newer poems that emerged were quite separate from my thesis, so much in fact that two additional manuscripts were conceived during the summer vacation that year. In the fall 1996, I left decided not to return to GMU but opted to work on my poetry in a non-academic environment while looking for a full time job. Read more
