My poem, “Ice Bound Sister” will be out shortly in The New Sound: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts and Literature volume 2 #1. Just got galleys to proof.

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WWP regular Mark Webb continues to astound and delight me and WWP regulars who have worked with him. A beginner not two years ago, he now publishes poetry regularly, and has started his own literary journal, A Narrow Fellow. Two…

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During the Spalding University MFA program’s alumni “Homecoming Weekend” later this month, I’ll be workshopping a fairly recent fiction piece, “Re-entry,” concerning a Vietnam vet returning to his small-ish city in Kentucky.

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The IU Southeast English Club, which I advise, won a diversity and multiculturalism award in Spring 2013 for its monthly Lit @ Lunch open mic.

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Here’s an interesting bit of trivia. Russell Mulcahy, who directed the first Highlander flick, also videographed “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the very first music video shown on MTV. It was the first music video he directed. [This trivia thanks…

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The “Whiskey Poet” Ian Uriel Girdley read his tender, sombre, and often lusty autobiographical poems in his signature mellow, self-deprecating tone Wednesday, May 8 at Decca’s moody basement bar. His lovely wife and muse, Sarah Girdley, who should have come…

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