You can see new poems of mine in several places:Most recently Sundog Lit published two of my poems, “Welcome to the Hi-Line,” and “Lange & O’Keeffe, 1933.” You can read them both for free HERE Superstition Review also published a poem, “Dear Federico.” Go HERE to read it. Strangely, many of the poems coming to […]
The Fall 2011 issue of RFD Magazine is dedicated to Walt Whitman and Edward Carpenter. My essay about Whitman, Montana, and Allen Ginsberg “Stranger if You Passing Meet Me” can be found therein. RFD Magazine is that began in 1974 after “The Whole Earth Catalog” refused to print anything about gay men. Originally aimed at reaching […]
For some time now, I have been hypnotized by ruin. I don’t mean the moral ruin that I was always warned about in church, but the ruin that comes to everything as the result of time. None of us is safe from decay. My first lesson in ruin came from the continual round of seasons […]
I’ve been writing about Matthew Shepard, or at least the image of Matthew Shepard clouded by eleven years of martyrology and media distortion. If the gay rights movement has a patron saint, it is the smiling face of Matthew haloed by his longish blond hair. Harvey Milk’s face has been edited out of history by that […]
It’s been a while since you and I last saw one another. I’ve been packing my bags and books and furniture, everything really, in preparation for the move to Idaho. I keep asking myself, “Where did all of this stuff come from?” Followed immediately with, “Can I live without this?” Somewhere between the start of […]
I am happy to announce that my poem “Cold Mountain Blues” will be appearing in Front Range on March 1st. You can check out this great literary magazine published in my home state of M-O-N-T-A-N-A! http://www.frontrangemt.org/
In case you were wondering where I have been, I went home for a post-holiday visit with my family. I grew up in rural Montana. In fact, the picture above was taken a little more than a mile from my parents’ home. * * * * Although I am out to my family members, it […]