“Not altogether a fool,” said G., “but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool.”
—G. to C. Auguste Dupin, in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter”
“Ah! I’ll never, never meet such a man again. You ought to have heard him recite poetry—his own, too, it was, he told me. Poetry!”
—The Russian to Marlow, about Mr. Kurtz, in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
“I don’t like poetry.”
“Have you ever heard any?”
—Mrs. Masterson and Montag in Ray Bradbury’s “The Fireman”
Poems
An Interaction with Scotland’s Most Inane Bar and Restaurant Manager, and its Aftereffects
New English Review, September 2023
haikuniverse, July 11, 2023
no silence…
The Poetry Pea Journal 1:23 (July 2023), p. 113
and Poetry Pea Podcast, Series 6 Episode 18: Inner & Outer Weather, June19, 2023
The Jewish Writing Project, May 15, 2023
Prague, Czech Republic
Tisha Be-av and Tu Be-av 82 liftrat katan/August 2022
After Yehuda Amichai’s “Poem Without an End”
Door leading to the sanctuary of Prague’s Spanish Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai
Dear You—Poems Through The Heart (Red Penguin Books, 2023), pp. 5–6
First published in The Stray Branch 29:26 (Spring/Summer 2022), pp. 171–172
Providence’s “Orpheus Ascending” by Gilbert Alfred Franklin. Photo — Shai Afsai
Dear You—Poems Through The Heart (Red Penguin Books, 2023), pp. 73–74
Earlier versions published in Ibbetson Street 49 (Spring/Summer 2021), p. 38, and in Poetica Review 10 (Summer 2021), p. 17
Dear You—Poems Through The Heart (Red Penguin Books, 2023), p. 1
First published as “alone with a new moon…” haikuniverse, February 14, 2021
Dear You—Poems Through The Heart (Red Penguin Books, 2023), p. 31
First published as “in the poetry aisle…” haikuniverse, January 15, 2021
haikuniverse, January 17, 2023
The Mainichi, December 1, 2022
Living Senryû Anthology (October 2022)
Listening to poets talk
Poetica Review 15 (Autumn 2022), p. 55
First published in New English Review, January 2021
haikuniverse, July 26, 2022
Lighten Up Online, December 2021
Better Than Starbucks, November 2021, p. 31
Better Than Starbucks, November 2021, p. 31
First published in the leaves fall (Red Penguin Books, 2021), p. 2
CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Fall 2021, pp. 125–126
haikuniverse, August 30, 2021
This I Believe New England - Finding Humor
The Public’s Radio, July 20/21, 2021
First aired on November 24/25, 2020
An essay based on the poem “Old Shekel’s Teeth”
Haiku Journal 67 (June 2021)
There once was an old poet named Frost
Winner of The Friends of Wanskuck Library Limerick Contest, May 12, 2021
Failed Haiku — A Journal of English Senryu 6:65 (May 2021), p. 57
Failed Haiku — A Journal of English Senryu 6:65 (May 2021), p. 57
At the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino
JewishBoston, April 30, 2021
First published in JewTh!nk, January 25, 2021
Defenestration, April 2021
The Poetry Pea Journal of haiku and senryu, Spring 2021, p. 81
and Haiku Pea Podcast, Series 4 Episode 6: Exaggerated Perspective, March 15, 2021
The Poetry Pea Journal of haiku and senryu, Spring 2021, p. 50
and Haiku Pea Podcast, Series 4 Episode 4: Humourous haiku, February 15, 2021
I Get Ideas for Articles in Jewish Publications
JewishBoston, March 15, 2021
New English Review, March 2021
Failed Haiku — A Journal of English Senryu 6:61 (January 2021), p. 17
Ode to a Coffee Mug from Slater Mill in Pawtucket
Literary Yard, December 31, 2020
Dear Editor of the Local Jewish Newspaper — An Epistolary Poem
JewTh!nk, December 23, 2020
Inspired by a ruinous attempt to have a This I Believe New England radio essay, Finding Humor (based on the poem “Old Shekel’s Teeth”), reprinted in a Jewish monthly the week before Hanukkah
Gilbert Alfred Franklin’s outdoor Providence sculpture “Orpheus Ascending.” Photo — Shai Afsai
Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2020
Ibbetson Street 48 (Fall/Winter 2020), p. 17