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About Me

I co-own Press 53, a small literary press in Winston-Salem, NC. My interests in literature can be narrowed down to anything with strong narrative, regardless of form. I am also a published short story author, poet and songwriter, but my primary focus these days is on finding strong voices and making beautiful books. If you are a writer, check out the Press 53 Open Awards.

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My Blog

Ive been tagged!

And all this time I thought "Guten tag" meant "Good morning"&So here's the message I got, which turned out to have nothing to do with a good morning... "Each player starts with eight random facts/...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:19:00 GMT

The Origins of Dork

It was 1964. I was in the third grade in Kansas City, MO. I had a wild imagination that drove my father, mother, brothers and friends mad. I was a weird kid. Sometimes I pretended to be a frog. W...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:59:00 GMT

Ode to my favorite food (besides corn)

Ode To Peanut Butter Plain brown tub of oily, pasty, salty-sweet, mished-mashed goobers, this blue collar paté, from earth's caviar, smeared generously on crisp Saltines, glopped on watery wedges o...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:55:00 GMT

Today is Val's Birthday

Today is poet Valerie Nieman's birthday. Okay, she is also a writer of novels and short stories, but her poetry deserves some attention here. If you think poetry just isn't for you, or that it's just ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:10:00 GMT

Single Malt Dreams

Thanks to Curtis Smith, who gave me a nice bottle of Glenfiddich Single Malt on his visit to NC, I woke up the other morning laughing. I laughed for a good three or four minutes, lying in bed trying t...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:39:00 GMT

This week, I'm celebrating all my girlfriends

I love women. Girls, too. And ladies. Sometimes I have difficulty using the proper term, so I'm covering my bases here. So this week, my Top 40 Friends will be filled with my girlfriends. My two young...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:30:00 GMT

Some of my favorite movies... What are yours?

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Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:06:00 GMT

Do I Really Look That Lonely??? Desperate??? Broke???

Daily, several times, I receive a request from someone on MySpace who wants to be my friend. I am grateful for this, really, I am, but I deny most of these requests. The most popular requests are from...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 12:19:00 GMT

Goodnight, Mr. Vonnegut

My favorite writerthe writer who inspired me to writehas passed. I just read that Kurt Vonnegut died at age 84 in NYC. Anyone who knows me, knows I love to quote Vonnegut. I loved the man and his mi...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:22:00 GMT

Who I Really Am

Thanks to the Internet and all the wonderful quizzes available, I now know, and can prove, that I am a logical, analytical, rational and tortured genius, who is also a rich, decadent and sensual evil ...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:47:00 GMT