Prior 2021 publications

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The Poet (UK), "Letter to a Friend with a Black Belt," July 2021

 

PPP Ezine (India), "Steam Rises," May 2021

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Ocotillo Review (Kallisto Gaia Press, Austin, Texas), Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 2021, "Miracle at the Old Jalopy" and "Some of Us Write at Night." One of Charles's YouTube videos features him performing these two poems.

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Sylvia Magazine, Gloustershire, UK, January 2021

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Training/Education

Poetry and Fiction workshop courses with Dennis Schmitz and Richard Bankowsky, respectively, at CA State University (1984-85), and Poetry workshop courses at Carnegie Mellon with Gerald Costanzo in the late '80's, are the extent of my formal training.

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Nominations for inclusion in the Pushcart Anthology

 

2012: "Pergolesi / Mayfield--'Live!'", Golden Sparrow Literary Review, posted November 2011. The publication was short-lived, unfortunately, but it's still online.

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Also 2012: "Lost Love Blues," Kansas City Voices, Whispering Prairie Press, Kansas City, Kansas, Volume 9, 2011. A print publication, but the poem's in the issue preview. 

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2019: "Yellow, Early September, Late Evening, Cherrywood Lane" (its original publication), Twyckenham Notes, South Bend, Indiana, Issue Six, Sept. 2018.  (There's audio of me reading the poem on the website.)

 

 

 

 

 

Image: Galway Bay (Leggett)

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