The Poet for Hire Has Online Clippings

From Backwards City Review
"The Dead Won't Stop Moving" (online exclusive, poetry contest finalist).

From Boston Poet
"The Hidden Man" from 2003, recently added again to the revamped site.

From Concelebratory Shoehorn Review
"Alumni," "Child At The Pet Store," "Housewarming Tips," "Poem" and "Jealousy" from the March 2008 issue.

From Endicott Review
"Christine," "Arguments," and "Fear of Poets Realized" can now be viewed via issuu.

From Fox Chase Review
"Phone Tag" and "Mom's Birthday" from the 2008 Autumn/Winter issue.
"Our Only Dance" from the 2008 Winter/Spring issue.

From Meritage Press
"Bye to Summer" from the April 2004 "Babaylan Speaks" column.

From The Out of The Blue Website
"First In A Series," "Gathering," and my "Lonely People Haiku" appeared on the site in August of 2008.

From PoemHunter.com
"First In A Series" and "The Cup" are old standards I decided to post here.
"Drawn Out Haiku" was published once.  I may never collect it,  but I still liked it.

From the Poets Against War Website
"For the Cheerleaders of War, Halftime in Iraq, 2003," written and submitted in February, 2003.

From Round Online
Two of my "Sarcastic Haiku" are in this issue's "We Love Haiku" section, sans titles.
"My Leader" from the Parody issue (a riff on Allen Ginsburg's America, on the eve of Bush's re-election).

From The Scrambler
My poems "Joanie at the Museum Circus" and "Meeting Valerie Loveland" from Issue 40.

From Shampoo
"Coming to" from Issue #39.
"Our Metaphors Are Still From Earth" from Issue #29.
"Sarcastic Haiku, 1-3" from Issue #17.
"They Say I Should Be Used To It" from Issue #14.

From The Somerville News
"Sonnet For Ginsburg" posted in January 2005, published in the February 2005 print edition.

From Spoonful
"Jack" from the upcoming Issue # 6.
"My Father Defies Death to Write Me A Letter 35 Years Later Whether or Not I Made It Past 64" from the upcoming Issue # 5
"Except" from Issue #4
"Hail" from Issue #3.
"Poetry Isn't Everything" from Issue #1.
"Rat Poem" from Issue #0.

From U.M.Ph.! Prose
"Summer's End" is in Issue #8.
"Teaching Journalism" appears in Issue #6.
"Boston Haiku Cults" and "Celtics Poem" are in Issue #4.

From Verbophobia
"Why I'm Not Zen" from December 2003.

From Wilderness House Literary Review
"It's A Start" from Volume 4, Issue 3.
"Important Notice" from Volume 2, Issue 3.
"Haiku" from Volume 2, Issue 2.
"Us" from Volume 2, Issue 1.
"Moving In" and "For Lynne..." from Volume 1, Issue 3.
"Charon's Slow Day" is an early version of a poem I've since revised and retitled.  It was in Volume 1, Issue 1.

From Working For The Man
Thanks to editor and online friend John L. Roberson My poem "The Cup" appeared in this online anthology created 8 years ago to benefit writer/artist William Messner-Loebs and his wife.  Download the anthology in its entirety for free by clicking  here.  It may take time to download, but it's worth it.