I write about everyday things that bring deep emotions to the surface, about people and their struggles. Many of my poems have to do with the process of aging, and many hark back to high school days. My main goal as a poet is to communicate, so my poems are not hard to understand with a first reading. In all of them, however, I try to achieve a transcendence that invites a second or third reading as well. Some are comic or satiric in nature, as I believe that one of the many wonderful things poetry can do is make us laugh. I write because writing is what makes the most sense to me and because it brings me close to the heart of human experience.

Sweeping the Cemetery (Browser Books Publishing, 2007), Inside the Sound of Rain (Vincent Brothers Company, 1997)

Blue Oboe (Wyndham Hall Press, 1984)

Family Matters: Poems of Our Families (Bottom Dog Press, 2005), O Taste and See: Food Poems (Bottom Dog Press, 2003), I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio (University of Akron Press, Akron Poetry Series, 2002)

Classical and Modern Literature, Comstock Review, Connecticut Review, Denver Quarterly, Laurel Review, Poem, Rattle, The Classical Outlook, The Listening Eye, Vincent Brothers Review, Whiskey Island, Wind