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About Me

..Read Why America needs Obama http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/art icles/2008/01/05/why_america_needs_obama/Some people say I involved in way too much stuff. I run a writers group called Critical Connection Fiction Workshops. We used to have monthly writers workshops but it got too crazy and now we meet four times a year. I edit Orchid: A Literary Review , a bi-annual fiction journal. And I recently joined the board of directors for 826michigan a dynamite organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. In amongst all of this I'm supposed to be a writer but haven't gotten much of that done lately.
Here are some covers from recent issues of Orchid . We may be changing the name to OLR
I'm also a photographer. Some of my photos have appeared in Ontario Review and in photo shows. You can see some of my work by clicking on view more pics. You can also see some photos at my .mac home pageAnd now I've recently joined a new group, the Ann Arbor Photographer's Cooperative. It's looks like it's going to be great fun and I'm a participant for once instead of an organizer. An opportunity to relax, sort of.Your results:
You are Green Lantern Green Lantern 95% Catwoman 65% Supergirl 55% Spider-Man 50% Batman 45% Superman 45% Hulk 45% Iron Man 40% Robin 40% The Flash 35% Wonder Woman 35% Hot-headed. You have strong
will power and a good imagination.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz
I haven't read a comic book in over 25 years but I couldn't resist this "Which Superhero are you?" quiz. When I did read comic books, I favored Marvel over DC and I wish the quiz had categorized me as Iron Man, Spider-Man, or even Hulk but I did always think that Green Lantern was DC's coolest hero and thank goodness I'm not Robin.

My Interests

reading, writing

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet the man who was fool enough to introduce my grandmother to Miles Davis at a Detroit nightclub back in the fifties. I'd also like to be present for a meeting with Scott Joplin, Albert Einstein, and Charles Mingus as they discuss time signatures and relativity.

Music:

I wanted to grow up to be Smoky Robinson even though he didn't answer the letter I wrote him when I was eight years old. I still love old R & B, Motown, Otis Redding. Been in the mood for slow sad jazz, especially Flamenco Sketches by Miles Davis, some early Coltrane, and lots and lots of Chet Baker. BTW, (crossing music and movies here) track down a documentary about Chet Baker titled "Let's Get Lost." It's great!!! "Straight, No Chaser" about Thelonious Monk is not bad either.

Movies:

Here's a few favorites. There are really too many more to think of.

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Television:

I watch two televison shows a week: Smallville and Law and Order.
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Books:

Any short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates, Orchid: A Literary Review , The Summer Before the Summer of Love by Marly Swick, How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer, and books by Sherman Alexie, John Edgar Wideman, Lorrie Moore, Tobias Wolff, Grace Paley, Daniel Mueller, Peter Ho Davies, Richard Ford, John Steinbeck, Ellen Gilchrist, Flannery O'Connor, and many, many more.

Heroes:

My wife and children are my major heros.

My Blog

Terminate Who? Tell Me a Story.

This envelope back tells a story. Can you tell me what the story is? Can you make one up? It's the back of an envelope that used to contain a story submitted to Orchid. My coeditor, Amy, was cond...
Posted by Keith on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:22:00 PST