Three of my poems will be published in the Summer/Fall 2024 issue of the Journal of the Virginia Writers Club. My thanks to Editor Sofia Starnes.

Don’t put too much store by acceptances and rejections. It’s a crapshoot—who gets noticed, who gets awards. The race may go to the swiftest, but the prizes can go to all sorts of talents or tastes of the moment. The poem I think is brilliant you may find mediocre. There’s so much subjectivity to all this. So I also advise young poets is to have both humility and hubris. And the good sense to know when each should be employed.

March 30th: Saturday afternoon Poetry Reading, Art and Tea
                Visit the Arts Center in Orange & View the Exhibition        Open Wednesdays – Fridays: 12 – 8pm & Saturdays: 10am – 5pm 

If you cannot attend, view the catalog online:

 Ekphrastic Exhibition Art & Artists Catalog, March 17, 2024

The Opening of the Ekphrastic Art & Poetry Showing was a Great Success with 75 to 100 attendees looked at art created in response to poetry and read poems created in response to art. Artists from the Firnew Farm Artists Circle and Poets from the Poetry Society of Virginia created art and poetry inspired by each other’s work.

The showing will continue throughout March at The Arts Center in Orange, VA, concluding on March 30 with a poetry reading.

Four of my poetry collections are now on sale at The Arts Center in Orange. Purchasing there helps the center and its mission.

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