I just watched the film Man on Fire again tonight. There are few films more disturbing about vengeance. And despite the success of its anti-hero, I see violence as a poor cathartic. I do not subscribe to the lynch mob calls for oblique justice like...

“Horror is partial, it keeps you going” –Rita Dove He’s proof that angels sweat and make fat promises in child-like English She keeps twisting her oversized diamond then minces toward the ladies room on the highest of heels tries to ignore the...

Thanks to Rick for finding this and passing it back to me. Rick, a friend now, was a student if mine many moons ago when I penned this poem. I had not seen this draft for 15 years before today. I can’t tell you where or why I met Annie, but have never...

I first met Shannon during a poetry reading shortly after my first book came out some two decades ago. I later reviewed her first collection of verse and stayed in touch through the years with the sexy, sassy, southern and broadly gifted artist. I last...