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

Singer Songwriters of the 1970s

A Breezy Overview of Selected Artists of the 1970s

Bob Dylan-Paul Simon-Carole King- Jackson Browne-Harry Chapin-Joni Mitchell-Neil Young-Carly Simon- Cat Stevens-Gordon Lightfoot and dozens more.  

Bob McParland with Mike Baron

Outdoor concert

Concert July  13, 2024 

The Rock Music Imagination

A popular music history

Creativity in Rock Music

NEW BOOK: THE PEOPLE WE MEET IN STORIES-THE CHARACTERS IN AMERICAN FICTION 1950-1960