Lost in New Jersey

This week's poetry prompt was simple: Go through your phone’s camera roll and pick a random photo. Capture each detail with words and ph...

I'm going to try to write a prompted poem each week in 2023, encouraged by New Jersey poet Dimitri Reyes . We'll see how this goes. ...

Following is an excerpt from my contribution to " New Jersey Fan Club," an anthology published earlier this year by Rutgers Univer...

I met Nancy, my wife, in the 1980s at a newspaper called Catholic New York. That paper published its last edition today. Its editor, my frie...

This is the story of my first public poetry reading. I love hearing poems read aloud by their authors in real life. That and listening to mu...

Michelangelo's Pietà, St Peter's Basilica (Creative Commons) This month, I was able to attend two poetry festivals close to home, th...

My apologies for the aging, yellow Kodak print of Dad and me examining my diploma after the graduation ceremony on the Notre Dame campus dec...

Me and a photo of the artist, using a "Warhol Effect" filter. It's only fair I appropriate his style. Nancy and I took a road ...

Wesley Lake, Asbury Park Last week (Aug. 29-Sept. 3), I had fun taking over the Jersey Collective Instagram account . And you can too! There...