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An Interview With Me…
I was recently interviewed by a large, local, independent bookstore for their newsletter on central Pennsylvania writers. These are excerpts from that interview as it was published. I have left out some of the questions, but everything is included as it was published. Any typos are my own.
You are a poet. What have you published?
I have self-published three books of poetry — Never Forgotten, Huck Finn Is Dead, and The Biology Of Strangeness — all through Amazon. I have also been published in a number of online and print journals, including Elephant Journal, Sivana East, The Bridge Literary Journal, Contemporary Literary Horizons, Writing Raw, Aeomancies, and Typeface Literary Magazine, among others I’ve forgotten. I also had a poem published in an anthology about poverty called, Out Of The Depths. I’ve had a few poems translated in foreign publications, like Marginalia. There are also hundreds of poems I have posted in various publications on Medium. I do not submit to traditional venues, all the publications I mentioned solicited me.
Your first book was all war poems. Has Vietnam been a big influence on your poetry?
No, it hasn’t, but it has had a big influence on my life. I wanted to get those poems out first and be, at least mostly, done with the subject. Never Forgotten is my most successful book. Civilians are fascinated…
