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For the New Year

For the Winter Solstice

Approaching winter

First Sunday of Advent

Happy Thanksgiving!

Three short poems

Altar and Offering

"Prescription"

For All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day

For the end of October

A small autumnal prayer

“Bright beyond alarm…”

To begin again

"After Trakl"

On Michaelmas (with a phrase from Rilke)

For the first day of autumn

An elegy

Eclipse Season

On Migration

Issue #2

A Small Summer Book

“How Late, How Far”

Apologies and a correction!

Issue #1

Drawn

Queen Anne's Lace

August's Edge

A Small Book of Summer

A Small Book of Summer

For a Last Page

Guest poet: Isabel Chenot

“Wild roadside roses…”

After Waking

A springtime sequence

Poetry Is the Antidote

Satori in Easthampton

Undersong

Arise

Guest poet: Fr. Ryan T. Sliwa

Things Worth Remembering

My interview with The Free Press

April So Far

A Good Friday Special: Interview with Poet Joseph Massey + Giveaway

A quick update!

My new book!

Plein Air

This Far In

for a false spring

Embertide

"a voice thin with prayer"

March

Late February

A poem for last night’s full moon

From last autumn

Guest poet: Dan Rattelle

America Is the Poem

Guest poet: Monika Cooper

Wreath

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