Your perfect leavesshine back at meas if freshly washedby a spring rainand make mewant to believein youto touch your skinand feel the pulseof your artfulunblemished lifeon displayin a tidy white potyou will never outgrowI do believeyou would thrivein my sunless bathroom—a perpetual plantwho never needswatering or fussingand would not careif I live or die First […]
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It was the third time I had come to hear him read at the Tucson Festival of Books. As always, Billy Collins was charming and funny as he shared his poems and reflections on the art of poetry. For good reason he’s been called the People’s Poet. I suspect many in the packed auditorium were
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In light of the fact that Forever 21 has just declared bankruptcy, here’s the poem I wrote inspired by the store. It’s part of my fourth collection Shopping Cart Dreams published by Kelsay Books. All the dressesin the store lookmade for people whonever have to worryif they’ll fit. To be twenty-one again,with firm bodyand all
My prose poem “Plucked in a Far-off Land” was just published in NewMyths Online Magazine. You can read it here: https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-70/issue-70-stories/plucked-in-a-far-off-land
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I will be at the Tucson Festival of Books on Sunday, March 16, from 1:30 to 4:30. Look for me at the Indie Authors Pavilion – Adult Fiction and Nonfiction. There’s no booth number, but it’s a big tent in the Exhibitors Section #200-261 on the Main Mall South near the UA Mall tent. Copies of my
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My poem “A Place You Never Knew” was just published in the spring 2025 issue of Innisfree Poetry Journal, their 40th issue https://www.innisfreepoetry.org/innisfree-40/gene-twaronite/
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I will be sharing poems from my new collection Death at the Mall at the Tucson Desert Art Museum on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 3:30 pm. The Tucson Arts Poetry Series (TAPS) was started Feb. 2023. Each 4th Saturday of the month, at 3:30 pm, two Arizona poets are highlighted reading their published work. The
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This poem is from my second collection, The Museum of Unwearable Shoes. I thought I’d share it today in honor of Mark Zuckerberg, who just announced that Meta is doing away with fact checking. Apparently facts are no longer important in these heady days of shifting reality, and we remember how his empire all started
Here’s an ABC poem (also known as abecedarian), one of the poems in my latest collection Death at the Mall. The poem gets its name because the first letter of each line begins with the letter A and follows sequentially through the alphabet to Z.
Found Poem from The Book of Psalms We spend our years as a tale that is told.I have considered the days of old,the years of ancient times.We see not our signs. My days are consumed like smoke.I am weary with my groaning.For I have eaten ashes like bread,and mingled my drink with weeping.I watch, and