New Book Published February 2026
Popular Music, Ecology, and the Quest for Community
From the local to the international, the creativity of American music makers is engaged with reflections of life, love, the environment, and social justice. This book explores how music provides a field of opportunity to generate and sustain community.
Shamrock- A New Novel
Who Shamrock is- no one knows.Set in the contemporary history of North Ireland, Shamrock recalls the time of the Troubles. Now available for preorder on Amazon $14.95. August 15 release.
Is this renegade assassin now a protector of the peace? Or does this restless outsider pose a threat to North Ireland's dream of reconciliation? Bart Benton of the M16 attempts to unravel the mystery of Shamrock. The detective and Shamrock, the vigilante, are drawn into a tangled web of intrigue that also descends upon unsuspecting bystanders: a bookish man at a reading conference and three daring American women on holiday.
the last alchemist
THE LAST ALCHEMIST- A NOVEL is in public libraries: Boston Public Library, San Francisco Public Library, Amherst County Public Library, Bronxville Library, Chattanooga Public Library, Deerfield Public Library, Nyack Public Library, Kansas Central Library, Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library, Sacramento Public Library and others. The novel is also available from AMAZON, BARNES AND NOBLE, AND OTHER ONLINE BOOKSELLERS.
New Books Under Contract: American Melodies- Music, Community, and Ecology (To be published in 2025). A History of Baseball Fans (2025). Literary Modernism and Meaning (2025).
Poetry Publications: (2002-2024)
“A Ferry Home,” New Jersey Bards Poetry Review (June 2024)
"5 A.M.- Summer," New Jersey Bards Poetry Review (June/July 2023)
“High Country Fields,” Pinyon (Summer/Fall 2023)
“A Letter from Paterson to Mr. Updike,” “First Inaugural,” Paterson Poetry Review (Spring 2023)
“Winter Lament,” The Red Wheelbarrow 15 (October 2022):109.
“To Thoreau,” Bluebird Word (October 2022)
“Taps,” Visions International 106 (Fall/Winter 2022)
“Hurry Down This Poem (Energy Crisis)” The New Verse News (July 2022)
Singer songwriters (1970-1979) 150 + profiles
