Pseudo Talking Father’s Day Blues
06/16/2019
I’ve never seen a picture of Bob Dylanas a baby girl but who knows one day the photo may pop up someone swearing on social media it’s Bobby scowling at
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Ode to Victor Gruen, Shopping Mall Maven
06/11/2019
A story shining from every windowno third wall separating the storefrom the shopper, the poem from the poet shape, light, and color those were his stock in tradea socialist and Jewish
Iphigenia at Lunch-time
06/06/2019
I’m exiled in a countrybetween two great waterswhere tornados churn housesinto toothpicks, a mall that used to grow corn. Lunch-time I serve french fries a uniform disguisewith few requirementsnodding yes or no until I disappear
I Support Planned Parenthood
06/02/2019
Hard to believethey’re closing the doors againthe whole right to life thing. No man knows how to create a home from dreams, prayers, yearningthe magic stuff of umbilical fluid not the
Need to Know
05/20/2019
Crossing the Bay Bridge todayI saw an Armenian Genocide bannera public service stretched across the top-knot of Treasure Island yet another grouphunted down by history a convenience story for everything gone
Edgar Allan Poe in the Condo Development
05/13/2019
We stood around the mailbox discussing the noise coming from behind the wall of our bathrooms. I was just back from grocery shopping. Arven, my next-door neighbor said, “That’s what you get
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Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
Collaborative Zoom Reading: Maw Shein Win, Lenore Weiss, Alex Mattraw & Tiff Dressen
7-8pm
Thursday, March 26, 2026Clio’s Books, 353 Grand Avenue, 7pm to 9pm Influence, Reinvention & Work that EnduresLenore Weiss, Lee Rossi & Paul Corman-Roberts
Friday, April 17, 2026
National Poetry MonthSF Writers Grotto, 5-7 pm1663 Mission Street, #602
San Francisco, CA