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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
A reading of my poem “Happiness” at the publication celebration of Miramar 8.
Thanks to Chris Buckley and Phil Taggart.
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 Whispered is about my father’s death. (Tone Poems are poems with original music).
Tone Poems are poetry/music pieces where words and original music work together as equals. Here are a few samples: … Tone Poems: poems with original music
Here are two new tracks from Fur and Feathers — an album of instrumental music I hope to release soon. … New instrumental tracks
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.
Here are three poems from my book, Deep Pockets, published by Saint Julian Press in 2018. Thanks to Ron Starbuck.
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
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.
Daniel Thomas 