Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

My chapbook about my father’s experiences in Buchenwald has just been published by Finishing Line Press, and I wanted to say something about...

I was interviewed last January by Bruce Guernsey of Spoon River Poetry Review, and that journal has recently given me permission to reprint ...

I’m sending out letters this week trying to set up some poetry readings in Illinois or Michigan or Ohio, and I got to thinking about the rea...

When my family, my parents, my sister and I, finally left Germany in 1951, we were allowed to bring very little, only what would fit into a ...

My parents met in a slave labor camp in Germany during World War II. My dad had been there for four years, my mother for almost three. The...

I got an email in the comments section of this blog from the scholar Danusha Goska about something that I said in my posting about how I cam...

I started working on the poems for Lightning and Ashes after my father died in 1997. Before he died, I thought I was finished with writ...