Drawing from Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn explores how a long relationship of love is like a spiritual practice, a challenge to live in true care and compassion with those to whom we are closest. … Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn
On May 19, I performed eight of my tone poems at a Blue Whale poetry reading. Here’s a video of one of them. I Whisperedis about my father’s death. (Tone Poems are poems with original music).
Richard Jarrette, author of Beso the Donkey and several other books of poetry, wrote this review. In it, he quotes Dan Gerber, whose most recent book of poetry, Particles: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press.
Traversing the distance between snowy Minnesota and lush Southern California, “Deep Pockets” is a collection of lyric and narrative poems that evoke the passing years and “the soul’s mystery in the material world.” … Deep Pockets – Winner of 2018 Catholic Press Award