Please enjoy the sample poem below from my upcoming release, and remember--there are more ways to connect than you realize. - J.A. connection from my earliest memories whether i was with friends or family or just roller-skating in front of my house, waving at passersby in tan station wagons i remember. i remember feeling… Continue reading Connection – #alonetogether
Blood Trumps Stone – Art in the Time of COVID-19
So here we are. And art matters even less, doesn’t it? If only all the artists had gone to med school instead, we’d have enough doctors to go around. We’d have enough toilet paper to go around. We’d have enough water, enough cleansers, enough food, enough, enough, ENOUGH. We have enough, though, don’t we?… Continue reading Blood Trumps Stone – Art in the Time of COVID-19
New Release – Spring 2020
COMING SPRING 2020 unnamed it's a feeling, and it's unnamed. some have tried the terms distant or cold. some have labeled it aloof or detached. but those words are all states of being. the process is what has no name. knowing someone is slipping away—but not physically, not yet. you feel it: pure feeling, pure… Continue reading New Release – Spring 2020
New Release – “Pain & Renewal: A Poetry Anthology,” Vita Brevis Press
Pleased to announce the release of the new anthology out of Vita Brevis Press, courtesy of editor, Brian Geiger. The anthology, "Pain & Renewal," explores just that: the cycle, circle, that goes 'round and 'round, all our lives. I appreciate Brian's insight. He didn't try to even the score with "this many" for poetry about… Continue reading New Release – “Pain & Renewal: A Poetry Anthology,” Vita Brevis Press
Lingual Neutrality
Sticks and stones can break my bones, but… …but. Why is it that in an age where “sticks and stones” in the Binary Landscape of the Ether hurt as much as the names being hurled? Is it because words and names do indeed matter? The problem — and you can give me push-back if you… Continue reading Lingual Neutrality
