My dad would have celebrated his 80th birthday last month, and seldom does a day go by that I don’t think of him. He was an […]
Collections of limericks and poetry celebrating great authors and works of world literature.
We’re barely through the first half of the first month of 2021, and we’ve already lost Phil Spector, Knuckleball Niekro, my great aunt and my next […]
The following story was inspired by a series of events, some real and some imaginary. I dedicate it to a couple of young girls I know, […]
When it comes to sizing up an aphorism of pre-Socratic philosophy or summing up a treatise of German idealism, nothing beats a pithy limerick. But sometimes […]
The limerick is such a simple form of poetry. And yet its rigid structure makes it surprisingly difficult to write a good one. But what’s even […]
This lyrical retelling of Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is part of an ongoing series, entitled Simply Gothic. With these extended poems, I’m reworking classic works […]