Susannah Production Notebooks | April 14 | Rehearsal Day 4 Good interview this morning on The Mountain 101.5 – great to have Danielle in...

Below is the next in a series of "director's notebooks" about Opera Roanoke's premiere production of Susannah. Susannah Production...

We've finished our first day of staging Opera Roanoke's premiere production of Floyd's Susannah. Since of our principal artists asked me...

I can't believe the last time I posted here was in January, for a MET HD broadcast of Verdi's Nabucco. IT was that very broadcast,...

Friends in the Roanoke area: Please join me at Virginia Western Community College tomorrow, Saturday, January 7. The live broadcast of...

About Opera An image of articulateness is what it is | Isn’t this how we’ve always longed to talk? (William Meredith) If you don’t like...

Below is my penultimate poem for Tupelo Press's 30/30 Project. I only have a little way to go yet to complete both this poetry marathon,...

Postcards I. for Gustav Mahler Not content to just reach the summit—No. I want to stay—Abide there. “Auferstehn…” Perhaps. But this much...

I've been writing, and thanks to Tupelo Press publishing a poem a day during December. Click here to read more about the 30/30 Project,...

All month I've been writing with colleagues at Tupelo Press as part of their "30/30" project. Here is my poem, slightly altered from...

Below is my "Day 17" poem for this month, where I'm writing 30 poems in 30 days, thanks to Tupelo Press. They are publishing the work of...

Here is my "poem of the day" for December, part of Tupelo's 30/30 Project. Click here to support a fellow non-profit arts organization,...

This month I have been writing, and Tupelo Press has been publishing a new poem as part of their "30/30 Project." Click here to see the...

Click here to see Tupelo Press and my work as part of their "30/30" poetry marathon and fundraiser. I'm posting here many of the poems...

All-soul’s (for Mom) The table is quiet as memory where we sat so many mornings with your turbaned head bowed over a bowl of cereal a...

Angel Songs (for my Mother) 1. Every angel is terrifying* Wielding a sword or holding the scales of justice Flying towards the stars...

Click here to check out my poetry and Tupelo Press's 30/30 Project, where a handful of poets write a poem a day for 30 days and try to...

If you haven't heard about my participating in Tupelo Press's "30/30 Project" where I'll write 30 poems in 30 days this month, click here....