California Songs are poetry/music pieces that I have been writing as I transition from a lifetime in Minnesota to a new life in California. Each piece is a narrated poem accompanied by my music. Here are a few samples: … New track – California Songs
Deep Pockets – Poems
Deep Pockets is available on Amazon.
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.” …
Fur and Feathers is an album of instrumental music I hope to release soon. Check out this sample track. …
Review of Deep Pockets
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.
Diary of an Immigrant is a 16mm film I made while in film school in 1981. It was premiered at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. The film juxtaposes images of contemporary Wisconsin with imaginary diary entries of my Italian grandfather as he traveled to the new world 100 years ago. Think The Emigrants meet Stroszek.
Upcoming reading
On March 17, I will be the featured reader for Kevin Patrick Sullivan’s reading series in San Luis Obispo. I will read at 7:00pm as part of the Corners of the Mouth reading series at Linnaea’s Cafe, 1110 Garden St. in SLO.
Tomas Tranströmer
In Robert Bly’s introduction to his translations of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, he writes:
One of the most beautiful qualities in [these] poems is the space we feel in them. … Tomas Tranströmer
