Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

Suitcase Charlie My crime novel Suitcase Charlie is now available as a Kindle or paperback. Here's a synopsis of the book: May 3...

  I grew up in a section of Chicago that was called Murdertown in the local papers.  This was back in the 50s, 60s, and early 70s. My ...

Call for Submissions Poems on  Dreams   and   Dreamers   and   Dreaming I  am looking for poems for...

I got an email yesterday from a friend. He asked me what I thought about Charles Simic. He's a poet that some of you might have heard o...

  At a reading of poems from my book  Lightning and Ashes ,  I read the ones about my  father’s faith  and  my mother’s loss of faith ,...

My flash fiction piece "The Last Man on Earth" appears in a audio podcast read by the actor Elijah Lucian. It is the 2nd of th...

By the winter of 1944, my father had been in Buchenwald for 3 years.  He thought the war would never end and he would die there, some...