Honored to share the news that my poem in memory of Stuart Friebert now appears in the online literary journal OFFCOURSE. My thanks to editor Isabel Nirenberg at Albany University, and to Stephanie Friedman for her notes on an earlier draft.
Here's a direct link:
offcourse.org/issue101/ric...
Local Gems Press has included my poem, “Still Life with Bone Scan,” in the Ohio Bards Poetry Anthology for 2025. My thanks to editors James P. Wagner and Maddie McGivney, and congratulations to the other fine Ohio poets included in this anthology.
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
(For John Rettger)
by W.H. Auden
So I wish you first a
Sense of theatre; only
Those who love illusion
And know it will go far:
Otherwise we spend our
Lives in a confusion
Of what we say and do with
Who we really are.
