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Pining – A New Chapbook

Posted: October 28, 2023 in Ink's Poetry
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Did I mention that 2023 has been going really well for me? In addition to a low-key creative boom, I also fell in love. Hard. And, luckily, so did she. But we, as most people (or at least introverts) tend to do, didn’t actually think it was happening.

It was during this enormously frustrating and euphoric period that I was reading a Takuboku collection, and my emotional overflow funneled itself into the writing of several short poems. …and then several more short poems. …and then even more short poems. I was helpless on two fronts and enjoying every minute of it. So after I confessed to her, I put together this time capsule of my yearnings.

The title popped into my head while listening to the Nick Cave song “More News from Nowhere”; the word, nested in lyrics of a totally opposite hue, rang in my ears as soon as it was sung. The art came to me in a flash soon thereafter and is, at least I’d like to think, a gentle nod in the direction, via the lines’ placement and strokes, to Japanese characters and points to the reasons behind not only the form of some of the poems but the differences in focus and tone between sections I and II.

And because I was (and remain) so enamored of this woman with whom I fell so madly in love and who found herself a similar victim, I made it my mission to get this small collection of poems published. It only took one submission before Pining found a home at Alien Buddha Press. So it is my pleasure to announce that Pining will be available for purchase (from me and Alien Buddha Press) on November 14!

Limited Edition Brochureside(tm)

Posted: October 28, 2023 in Ink's Poetry
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Long a part of literary history, broadsides are single-sided pages that feature one poem and some visual elements. But a strong and unusually strange bit of enthusiasm hit me one morning while reading: I have a poem about a fictional museum; why don’t I print it as as museum brochure? And thus my brochureside(tm) for “The Museum of Broken Promises” was born!

Printed in a limited run of 25 copies, these hand-numbered copies will be for sale for $3.00 at both of my features in southern and central New Jersey (November 17 and 19, respectively). The brochureside features the poem itself on the internal three folds along with some images closely illustrative of the imaginary exhibits, while the other side offers up a few Easter eggs and visual puns as well as a heartfelt dedication and not so heartfelt About The Author blurb.

To hear what you’ll be reading, click below:

“The Museum of Broken Promises” is inspired by and follows the tradition of The Idiom and Piscataway House Publications Publisher Mark Brunetti, who wrote and performed a number of poems about imaginary museums.