PUSHCART NOMINATION
I’m very pleased to say that my essay “Glad To Be Human,” published in the Tusculum Review, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. According to their website, The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America.

LITERARY MAGAZINES
From Alaska to Atlanta, Tennessee to Texas, my poetry and essays are reaching readers across the United States. My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, Anemone Sidecar, Atlanta Review, The Awakenings Review, Bayou, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Calyx, Chachalaca Poetry Review, College English, Compass Rose, Controlled Burn, Permafrost, Rockford Review, Skylark, Spirit To Spirit, Tusculum Review, Whiskey Island Review and Zone 3.

NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK IN 2013
My latest children’s book “Forest, What Would You Like?” is forthcoming in 2013 from Holiday House, the oldest children’s book press in the country. It will be illustrated by the very gifted Pat Schories. Pat, best known for her immensely popular “Biscuit” series, is also a brilliant botanical artist.

This book grew out of my work with River Of Words, a national program which connects children to their watershed via poetry and art. Thanks to a generous grant to The Hudson Highlands Land Trust, I have been developing and teaching poetry workshops with students from K-5th grade in local schools.

COMING SOON! ART GARDEN ONLINE!
Thanks to tech-savvy writer Saxon Henry, we will shortly be entering the 21st Century with a dedicated Art Garden website, Facebook page and Twitter Feed.

I’M IN LOVE
With words, and always have been. I love their looks, their sounds, their meanings and their impact. In large part, my life as creator is an exploration of ways to share this pleasure through my own voice and body in poetry, prose, calligraphy, theatrical pieces and writing for children.

Words are precious. They convey much of our human experience, and, more poignantly, our attempts to share it with one another. This ongoing effort to express, to describe, to envision, to explain, to reason, to instruct, to entertain, to create entire worlds is something that moves me deeply. For that reason I am interested in anything which helps clarify or amplify meaning.

At this website you can explore some of the places my journey has taken me.

As Zatz, one of my characters says, “A day without words is like……”