I had a poem accepted for inclusion in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee, to be published by the Texas Review Press. This means a lot to me, because it's been 25 years' of frustration in trying to get publication recognition in my home state of Tennessee. I've been wildly successful getting published around …
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Hey! Check out some fantastic new poems by Kenneth Pobo, Howie Good, and Robert Lietz in the Winter 2012 issue of Ray's Road Review. The new issue is out; read it & submit!
As I sit here writing this blog entry, I am recovering from a very major surgery I had on December 5th. It was quite painful, I was in the hospital for awhile, I still am in discomfort, but I'm coming along quite well, IMO. It's supposed to take 6-8 more weeks for me to heal, …
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Hi! It's been a long time & much has happened since I last wrote here. I think I'm just going to do a bullet point list of some high/low points, as that would be easiest on me. My dad came through his surgery spectacularly! He did not have to have is voice box removed or …
These are sobering times for my loved ones and me these days. Tomorrow I leave Chattanooga to go to Knoxville. Early Tuesday morning, my father is undergoing a frightening and terrible surgery at UT Hospital there. I moved to Tennessee from a nice little island I was living on several years ago, primarily to be …
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