A collection of my poems, Brothers of Morning, is published by Deerbrook Editions (North Yarmouth, ME, July 2002).

The poems have also been published in a broad spectrum, including national magazines, such as The Sun and The Progressive, the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Poetry International, Country Journal, Dogwood, The American Voice, The Quarterly, The American Poetry Review, Rattle, The Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal and The Beloit Poetry Journal. They are represented in several anthologies, most recently in The Maine Poets, edited by Wesley McNair (Down East Books: 2003); Motion: American Sports Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2001); Poetry Comes Up Where It Can: Poems from The Amicus Journal, 1900-2000 (University of Utah Press, 2000); Wherever Home Begins: 100 Contemporary Poems (Orchard Books: New York, NY, 1995); Speaking of New England (North Country Press: Belfast, ME, 1993); Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Texas Tech University Press: Lubbock, TX, 1991).

. . . have been published in many different newspapers and magazines, including Newsday, The Village Voice, The Christian Science Monitor, Maine Times, The Kennebec Journal, Holiday and Skiing.

I have participated in the Touring Artist program of the Maine Arts Commission for the past 25years, performing poems and stories for diverse audiences at such sites as the Maine State House (see other side), the Maine Arts Commission, Portland Museum of Art, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Portland Public Library, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (Fall 2005), the Maine Festival of the Arts, Camden Opera House, Rockport Opera House, Grand Auditorium (Ellsworth), Maine Coast Artists and other galleries, art centers, libraries, colleges and schools.

My programs sometimes include music (flute and recorder) and dance.

I also dance on stilts and have performed with the Arthur Hall International African Dance Company and in many arts festivals and parades, including the Maine Festival of the Arts, Portland.s Center for Cultural Exchange Music Festival and most recently the opening for the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships.

"Columbus: The New World Order" (group show), Ellsworth Public Library, 1992.

"Artists in Residence" (group show), Maine Coast Artists, 1994.

"Paperwork" (group show), Maine Coast Artists, 1997.

"Different Approaches: Artists Who Write, Writers Who Art" (group show) Maine Coast Artists, 2000/01.

"Eliminating Racism: Building the Planet We Want" (group show), Galeyrie Gallery, sponsored by Union of Maine Visual Artists, 2004.

Since 1981, I have been teaching some 50-100 workshop days a year in the Maine Arts Commission.s Artist in Residence programs, mostly in schools, but also at other diverse sites, such as the Portland Museum of Art, the University of Southern Maine.s Stonecoast MFA Program and Farnsworth Gallery (Rockland), and at state arts conferences, such as the Maine Council for English Language Arts and the Maine Alliance for Arts Education. Before coming to Maine, I taught poetry workshops under the auspices of the New York State Poets-in-the-Schools.

My poems have been cited in a number of national competitions, including the Northeastern States Poetry Contest, First Place, 1985; one conducted by Westminster College, in Salt Lake City, Second Place, 1989-90 (May Swenson, judge); The Margurette Cummins Quarterly Broadside Award, Amelia Magazine, First Place, 1997; 1999 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, Patterson Literary Review, Finalist; Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance 2000 Poetry Competition, Second Place; Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance 2003 Poetry Competition, Second Place.

In performance, First Place in the first two poetry slams at the Maine Festival, 1992-93. Fellow of Blue Mountain Center (Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.) six times between 1986 and 2003.

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Scholarship for .Constructions/Writing,. a two-week workshop focusing on writing as the core for visual work, 1995.

The Pierre Menard Poetry Scholarship, Stonecoast Writers. Conference, University of Southern Maine, 2000.

The Bill Bonyun Award for Exemplified Talent & Professionalism as an Artist & Contributions to Arts Education, given by the Maine Alliance for Arts Education, 2006.

Editor: Hauling Up Morning: Poems and Images of Latin America (War Resisters League and New Society Publishers: Philadelphia, PA, 1990).

Performing member of the Arthur Hall International Dance Company, 1995-97.

The Wildman: A Short Fable, illustrated by Mary Azarian (North Country Press: Unity, ME, 1985, reprinted 1999.)

Writing and presenting poems is a way I touch and make present a sense of grace I want in my life. I remember once being intrigued by Wallace Stevens saying poetry was a sacrament in his life. It has come to that. There are moments I love in poems I have made.when they are given, when windows, doors, walls blow off, and I am in a warm, boundless space with whoever is listening.