My reading of one of my poems from the Summer Poetry Festival in Richmond, VA June 29, 2024

Four excerpts from my Oct. 26 reading at Germanna Community College:

Watch my April 7, 2023 Lunch and Learn offered by the Central Rappahannock Regional Library. I discussed “Poetry as Witness” – how poems speak of the human experience in ways that witness what may need to be changed or reformed.

Click the link: https://fb.watch/jM1mYW8s_I/

At Germanna Community College on April 29, 2019 reading “Shades of Difficulty”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGqHyiBzOq8&list=PLaYPMBLAyZMF_n9KRpVVqObj-yEd5gdyZ&index=17&t=0s

At the Raven’s Nest: “Once I Was a Starling”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0onSYLpVcA

At the Griffin: “The Sweetness of Color”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYAOAK98aTU

At the Griffin: “In Pennsylvania, in McKeesport”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3XUJKSmgg

At the Raven’s Nest : “Fireflies”

At the Griffin: “Waiting for Fire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fIJ4Uo1x9g

At the Griffin “Chasing Loons”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvtlTKo5J6Q

At the Griffin “Bend, Oregon: The Fourth of July”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dj8h-8w54

At the Griffin “Wisdom of the Common Grackle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuMOEEBaH8

At the Griffin “For Linda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioe2SbxK_z8

At the Griffin “I am of Appalachians”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxQOy4z3OvA

At the Raven’s Nest “Fatherhood”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZK-9pzzqE

At the Griffin reading “Prelude: Inspirited”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7xiNe18q4

At the Griffin reading “Grendel”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAZm8A50EeE

At the Griffin reading “Shouting Run into the Brain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHubTY17-Ic

My complete reading at the Griffin Bookstore, June 2014:

My complete reading at the Ravens Nest coffeehouse 2014:

A reading of  “Momentum” from “Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves” at Culpeper’s Raven’s Nest Coffeehouse on July 11, 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_1NJmwGaI

A reading of “Fatherhood” from “Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves” at The Griffin Bookstore in Fredericksburg – June 22, 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAyyGmE_Ymo

Three excerpts from a reading at Germanna Community College Fall 2007:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VsYLxIhWl8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyXSQP16q50

Here is a map showing my 1972 backpacking/hitchhiking trip that inspired the poems in “Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves” – Section “Driftwood Memories or Waiting for Fire”:

The street I grew up on — 36th Street in McKeesport PA—as it looks today, much like in the 1950s. Still paved with red bricks. Poems from “Memories in Clay” the first section “Spring Near Emile Creek” were inspired here. The images the follow courtesy of Google Maps:

The house I grew up in while living in McKeesport. One room has been added in the back and siding instead of asbestos shingles.

Woods behind my house aerial view. The blue dot marks my home. My view was from 3 feet high or so as I played and explored here:

Here is my Belleville Michigan home and neighborhood including the lake that I spent much time on boating, swimming, fishing, and walking across when it froze.

Here is a Google Map satellite view of Bend Oregon (far right), Tumalo Falls Road leading to the Falls (dimly seen in the center) and the Three Sisters mountains (far left). This is the first area I backpacked on my 1972 trip.

Images from my poetry readings: