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).
Tone Poems are poetry/music pieces where words and original music work together as equals. Here are a two samples that set poems from my new book, Leaving the Base Camp at Dawn:
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