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On this Thanksgiving Day, I have many things for which to be grateful. What stands out for me this year is all that has come along through t...

I re-discovered haiku after taking a jazz poetry workshop and found that I enjoy the form. Most of the haiku I have written is related to j...

I attended a program about the Kennedy-Nixon Debates, which were the first televised presidential debates. This poem was inspired by remarks...

Two of my jazz poems were published in the Rusty Truck Poetry Zine. One is a biopoem of Lena Horne called Chosen and the other is three hai...

This poem was inspired by the same event as Humanitarians. Throughout the presentations and acceptance speeches, the ideas of advocacy, spea...

I wrote this after attending an event at which a number of people were recognized for the good works they do. One of the honorees is a frien...

Every so often, I come up with something that is a little lighter. This was triggered by a true incident, but the details are fiction. It le...