Thirty-five ekphrastic poems pair with images of artist Kristy Deetz's "Specimens" (environmental sculptures) made with encaustic, found objects, and natural materials. The poems respond in content and style to the sculptures and offer the reader ways to enter the artwork while adding nuanced layers of allusion and metaphor.
Ekphrases
(coming soon!)
The process of ekphrasis, basing a written text on a visual art-object, returns in this twenty-two poem chapbook forthcoming soon!
This collection of fifty sonnets examines the locales and odd characters of Harmon Falls, a small Midwestern town with an energetic history and a present fraught with financial failings and a diminishing population—amidst a setting of natural beauty and tenuously surviving potential.
Selected poems from nearly forty years of published and unpublished work include sonnets, jazz poems, city poems, small-town poems, a Tolkien-influenced cycle, ekphrases, and more.
A sonnet sequence honoring Shakespeare’s plays, this book also serves as a crossover between “creative” and “scholarly” composition.
Coming-of-age motifs blend into the experiences of early adulthood in this collection of musical, verbally-refined poems.
This selection of city/jazz-inspired poems draws on sites and scenes in Chicago—and other cities as well.
This nineteen-poem chapbook takes inspiration from books, myths, and literary history to bring life back from amidst the dust.
This thirteen-poem chapbook reflects on places, dates, and memorable monuments using ekphrasis and a cinematic eye.
A bit of grit and a lilt of jazz—with an undergirding of Milton’s Paradise Lost—this twenty-two poem chapbook sizzles from one midnight to the next with a whole day’s rush and rumble in between.