I’m really happy about this new interview that’s up at the Etruscan Press site where I discuss writing and art. Check it out! https://etruscanpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SSG-interview-1.6.pdf
My recent work with Claire Benn at the Crow Barn was inspiring and informative, as usual, and I returned home with lots of new techniques, and Claire's voice in my…
I'm at a Claire Benn surface design workshop at the Crow Timber Barn in Ohio. This first week we are in 'free fall,' which means we are to have no…
Whenever I feel like I have lost my way, I go to my garden. There I will find everything: beauty, growth, life-and-death fighting, and rot. I should say that I…
The poems from The Small Door of Your Death, are all written in what I might call a minimalist style. Because they dealt with the death of my son, I…
What is it about tree bark that so inspires? I must admit to loving trees, first off. But there's something about the bark of a tree that excites my imagination…
Traditionally we understand ekphrasis as a written response, often a poem, to a work of art. John Keats' "Ode on Grecian Urn" is a famous example. The idea, initially, was…