I learned to read at home when I was four or five. Then, when I was about six, the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio introduced me to the classics, as you see here. I’ve been writing for publication since 1961, when I had a story published in the student literary magazine at the University of Illinois. It was a parody — “Chicken Little” as Dostoevsky would have written it.

In the years since then, my writing's been published in a diverse, not to say wild, range of magazines and anthologies; various editions of my books have come from presses of notably different sorts and sizes, eg, Doubleday and Shameless Hussy. In 2008-09 I worked with Ash Creek Press in Oregon to create The Ash Creek Series: we made the literary equivalent of what chefs call "small plates" — an elegant signed/numbered edition of a five-poem folded broadside, a chapbook manuscript in a cartoon envelope, and a staple-bound chapbook.

I'm mostly writing stories and poems now, though occasional essays force their way into my mind, onto this screen and even out to paper pages; they are apparently unstoppable (see OP-ED and ESSAY).

From this page you can click to ……
~ my books, with commentaries, excerpts, responses and photos for each
~ anthologies that include my writing, with publication information for all
~ a list of recently published and coming-soon poems, essays and stories
~ a poem, essay and story right here on the website, for instant gratification