I have published two books of poetry with Persea Books, NYC. And over 100 poems of mine have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals, such as the Los Angeles Times, Commonweal, Kenyon Review, and The Paris Review. I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with my wife Kelly, a high school teacher, and our two Plott Hounds, Harley and Jackson, who were abandoned by hunters near a Louisiana swamp and miraculously discovered by us.

I began my life in the arts with music composition—I was accepted to Boston’s Berklee College of Music– but soon my obsession with music became an obsession with song lyrics which then became an obsession with the more compressed world of poetry.

Neither music nor poetry lent themselves to a stable career, and so I balanced my writing world with a more prosaic one in the office.  Currently, I am an Assistant Vice President at Louisiana State University (LSU), leading the University’s Risk Management program.

North of the Past

The Beatles’ best song

was on the last station

when it too faded and the past

was gone and the future

more than a stand 

of ominous black trees

is somewhere north

beyond the last wilderness

in the distant silence

charting out a new sound.

Published in the Colorado Review