WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS STORY It’s been six months since my memoir in verse, Septuagenarian, debuted. I think about this as another Minnesota poet, and another, and another has released another book of poems. I think about how different our voices are. How different our techniques. I am less …
SELF-INTERVIEW: SWAN SONG. SEPTUAGENARIAN You say your most recent book, Septuagenarian, is your swan song, what do you mean by that? Septuagenarian is the last book I will write. Friends ask me why and I respond “I am tired.” My focus has always been to discover who I am …
FOUND POEM Attributed to Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die (March 2021) One doesn’t have to imagine good and evil amidst all this terror sadness, the bones and the blood surrender we can make a difference we are all somebody we are not on the backs on …
From Love Imagined to the possibility of Love-Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die. If you’re not familiar with the writer I am, here’s a brief bio: I started writing in 2nd grade, but began a serious writing career in my early 30’s when I realized there …
