Author of St. Michael Poker & Drinking Club and Baxter's Friends
My new piece, "The Winds Out of the Southeast", will be published in EDIFY FICTION'S mega one year Anniversary issue out this more...
I'm pleased to report I've had a new piece accepted for publication. "Swan Upping on the Thames" will appear in Poydras Review, Feb. more...
My recent poem, Papa, was published May 3 by The voices Project. It is an unconventional look at more...
My most recent poem RAINY DAYS AND appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, vol. 2, more...
Karen Carpenter, poem, poetry, Rainy Days and Mondays, The Carpenters
Here is a link to the on-line version of "Prognostication" in Rose Red Review. At first reading it may appear to be a bit of whimsy, but on further consideration I think you will see a deeper more...
A recent poem "Under the Streetlight In the Rain" was published by Poydras Review May 2nd. Take a more...
A new poem Under the Streetlight in the Rain will appear May 1st at Poydras more...
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I had a curious experience today while reading Ned Randle's recent collection, Running at Night. The poems first came to me on kindle as I waited for the hard copy to arrive. In the electronic universe the words in Ned's poems were fleeing, much like the fleeting world of Facebook where everything grows old in an instant. The package opened, the paperback in my hands, more...
I included this book on my list of top ten books that influenced me because it was a quintessential book of the 1960s. It masked its depth of thought with playfulness. Brautigan's style was more free verse poetry than prose. His imagery was poetic, as well. Most of all, it was fun to read and made a good companion to his poetry collections. Next: Another Roadside more...
1960s, Another Roadside Attraction, poetry, Richard Brautigan, Tom Robbins, Trout Fishing In America
Over thirty years ago I read an article in a prominent writer's magazine referring to the "poetry mafia". Although the article was well done, and well on point, it has occurred to me over the intervening years that "mafia" is a bit too strong. I would refer to the concept more as a poetry or literary guild or, in the idiom of business, literary interlocking more...
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Down Cemetery Road is the much-anticipated prequel to the unforgettable Baxter’s Friends. Ned Randle raises the curtain on the formative years of Billy Bright’s life, revealing a formula for his adult years that is at once both intoxicating and utterly sobering. Down Cemetery Road delves into the disillusionment of adolescence sadly often shot down by mid-life.
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