Writing Poems

I have written poems in bursts, in waves, in cycles. A bunch during my first few years in Louisville Kentucky, beginning with an open-mic during Gay Pride 1994, continuing with a couple of informal poetry groups, and then ending abruptly in 1996. There have been a few poems scattered across the last decade. 

This past week I was at a poetry workshop led by Richard Blanco at Maine Media - The Photographic Poem. I was looking for a way to more deeply enter the photographs I've been making. It was that and more - lessons in craft, the seven of us participants working on poems from family photos and other inspirations, early mornings walks along the harbor as the lobster boats came in to load up with empty traps; a time and place to nurture some seeds.

This is a launch page with links to all the poems and sometimes to provide extra context or commentary.

From The Photographic Poem Workshop, 2025

Devil’s Rope, Laramie, 1998 (28/30 June 2025)

Sonya at Sixteen (25 June 2025) 

A Scattering over the Years

Weeping Through a Deep Hairline Crack (6 March 2025)

making love to this emerging tender indestructible being (11 February 2023)

Necessary Being (10 May 2020)

Look Directly (26 April 2019)

My Thoughts (6 January 2019) - My poem is buried in a page full of other things.

Published on The Point in 1997

I had a website with hand-coded HTML in my user space at thepoint.net starting in 1997, early but not that early in Internet history. I'd been a consumer of online content since the bulletin board days of the 1980s. I found evidence of my desire to become a content producer in a sketchbook from September 1997. The burst of energy that led to the poems had already ended by the time they were posted. I shut down that first website in the early 2000s. These poems, reposted in 2025, have their original dates of composition. They are listed from oldest to newest.

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