Recent Publication
Article: What Decade Is This?
Photograph: Shelfie Selfie
Incandescent Mind: Selfish Work
Poems: Morning After & Recycling (Reprinted)
Snorted the Moon and Doused the Sun
Essay: Music & Memory (Reprinted)
Article: Gals with Guitars
Article: Rage Against the Democratic Convention
Poem: Warehouse Lessons
Review: Highway of Sleeping Towns, Book by Deborah J. Kolodji
Poem: Trying to Drag the Beauty Out of a Flower
Reviews: Favorite Albums of 2017
Article: Musical Fringes
Review: The Mystical Prism of Being, CD & Book by Brian Michael Tracy
Review: Feels CD
Article: Rock Music & Spoken Word
Review: Promise, CD by Emily Wells
Poem: Charlie Brown in the Strip Club (reprint)
Review: A Raw Youth, CD by Le Butcherettes
Review: Woman in Metaphor
Article: Metal vs. Alternative
Poems: Ace of Spades and Three of Clubs
Then & Now anthology, Sadie Girl Press
Poem: Give Me Real Boobs
Poem: I Don’t Need Tattoos, I Have Scars
Poems: Almost Valentine’s, The Song of Inappropriate Desire,
Love is Not a Kid Successfully Launching a Kite
Second Annual Cadence Collective Anthology
Story: What’s a Little Rain?
My Perfect/Imperfect Vacation series from Silver Birch Press
Poem: Birdwatching
Poem: My Two Names
About My Name series from Silver Birch Press
Poem: London Calling
Review: Hold-Outs, book by Bill Mohr, and A Higher Form of Politics, book by Sophie Rachmul
Poem: Love is Not a Kid Successfully Launching a Kite
Article: Going to California
Poem: The Song of Inappropriate Desire
Poem: Almost Valentine’s
Review: Death in the Key of Life, Book by Danny Baker
Review: Desert Prowl, Book by Marvin Dorsey
Column: Making Money with Music in 2014
2014 Ground Control Critics Poll
Review: Offering, CD by John Coltrane
Article: Music & Travel
Interview: Hannah Blumenfeld of Ruin Discos Records
Article: Music & Travel
Review: The Best Day, CD by Thurston Moore
Poems: Love vs. In Love & A Refrigerator Never Forgets
Attack of the Poems: A Poet is A Poet Episode II
Poem: Fairy Rings
Mother Nature’s Trail
Reviews: My Beard Supports Nothing, Chapbook by Zachary Locklin
Hold Ground, Book by Bruce Willard
Poetix.net
Poem: Winter
Lummox #3
Poem: In the Japanese Garden
Men’s Heartbreak Anthology
Poem: Coins on the Sidewalk
Gutters & Alleyways: Perspectives on Poverty and Struggle
Poems: “You’re Kidney Just Arrived at LAX,” Morning After, “Love” vs. “In Love”
Cadence Collective Year One Anthology
Review: Canto Segundo, CD by Il Sogno del Marinalo
Review: My Family and Other Hazards, Book by June Melby
Reviews: The Breeze: A Tribute to JJ Cale, CD by Eric Clapton
Hypnotic Eye, CD by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Reviews: Look Each Other in the Ears, CD by Michael C. Ford
Topaz, Book by Brian Komei Dempster
Reviews: True Blue, 75 Years of Blue Note Records
Poem: The Summer Between College and the Real World
Review: Ghosts of Download, CD by Blondie
Several Haiku
Bored to Death Magazine
Article: How Nirvana Killed Rock Music
Poem: “Love” vs. “In Love”
Review: San Fermin, CD by San Fermin
Articles: Impressions of NAMM 2014
Article: Americana band Sawtooth
Article: Post-punk band White Murder
Article: Best Music of 2013
Poem: The Moral of This Story Is...
Reviews: White Light/White Heat, CD reissue by Velvet Underground
Give Me Strength, CD Box Set by Eric Clapton
Poems: Unspoken
Article: Jackie Joice and her book Green Grapes, Black Hands
Reviews: The Silence of Doorways, Book by Sharon Venezio
The Broken Line, Book by Judith Skillman
Reviews: Shout! CD by Gov’t Mule
Tommy (reissue), CD by The Who
Falling Bough, Wisdom Teeth, CD by Kiev
Poem: Winter
Poem (reprint): Nevada
Article: Lou Reed 1942-2013
Poem: The Summer Between College and the Real World
Review: Noise, CD by The Suppliers
Poem: Cows on the Freeway (reprint)
Article: 2013 Long Beach Poetry Festival
Poems: Charlie Brown in the Strip Club; Picasso
Article: In Praise of Bar Bands
Article: I Meet Iggy Pop
Review: The Diving Board, CD by Elton John
Reviews: Wise Up Ghost, CD by Evis Costello & the Roots
Hesitation Marks, CD by Nine Inch Nails
Poems (reprint): Cows on the Freeway & “Your Kidney Just Arrived at LAX”
A Poet Is a Poet No Matter How Tall
Reviews: The Savagery of Bone, Book by Timothy Perez
What Were They Like, Book by Julia Stein
Interview: Gabe Hart of Jail Weddings
Poem (reprint): The Morning After
Reviews: Stars Dance, CD by Selena Gomez
Self-Titled CD by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Interview: Laena Geronimo of Raw Geronimo
Poem (reprint): Your Kidney Just Arrived at LAX
Article: Haiku North America Convention on Queen Mary
Poem: The Image in the Corner of My Eye
Plug: Megafauna at Fingerprints
Review: Rumors of Fallible Gods, Book by Peter Ludwin
Reviews: Dream Fever, CD by Raw Geronimo
Sound the Alarm, CD by Booker T
Legend Remixed, CD by Various Artists
Article: Local LongBeach Music Scene (reprint)
Interview: Poet Donna Hilbert
Column: The Aging Punk on the Local Music Scene
Article: Five Long Beach Small Presses
Reviews: AMOK, CD by Atoms for Peace
I Wrote a Song for Everyone, CD by John Fogerty
Review: Every Seed of the Pomegranate, Book by David Allen Sullivan
Review: The Bald Soprano at the Garage Theater
Reviews: Old Yellow Moon, CD by Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
Such Hot Blood, CD by Airborne Toxic Event
Mosquito, CD by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Pillowfight, CD by Pillowfight
Cotton Mouth Man, CD by James Cotton
Article: Ellen Burr and Gatsby Book’s Experimental Music Series
Review: My Father’s Lady, Wearing Black, Book by Alex M. Frankel
Article: Post-Punk
Article: Why I Love First Albums
Article: Daniel Romo Book Release
Reviews: How Music Works, Book by David Byrne
The Next Day, CD by David Bowie
Get Up, CD by Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite
Heartthrob, CD by Tegan and Sara
Til Your River Runs Dry, CD by Eric Burdon
Starlight, CD by Joan Armatrading
Article: Feral Kizzy Video Release
Review: Rumors Deluxe Set, CD by Fleetwood Mac
Review: Lady from Shanghai, CD by Pere Ubu
Article: A Personal History of Rock’n’Roll: My First Band
Article: Poetry and Conspiracy Theories
Review: Celebration Day, by Led Zeppelin
Review: Psychedelic Pill, by Neil Young
Reviews: Crazy Bone by Billy Jones, and Every Day is an Act of Resistance by Carol Tarlen
Review: Love this Giant by David Byrne & St. Vincent
Poem: The Failure of Poetry
Review: What I Saw by Jack McCarthy
Review: Clockwork Angels by Rush
Review: Analog Man by Joe Walsh
Reviews: Leonard Cirino’s The Instrument of Others, and Lisa Zaran’s If It We
Review: Not Your Kind of People, CD by Garbage
Article: I Become a Rock Critic
Poem: “In the Japanese Garden”
Avoid Ninja Stars, Bank-Heavy Press
Review: Chimes of Freedom (Bob Dylan tribute)
Reviews: Sinead O’Connor & The Cranberries
Poem: “To the editor whose name will appear on my next rejection slip...”
Last Call: The Bukowski Legacy Continues, Lummox Press
Reviews: Catalina, Book by Laurie Soriano, and Sugar Skull Suenos, Chapbook by Taco Shop Poets.
Review: Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, CD by R.E.M.
Review: Quadrophenia reissue, CD by The Who
Review: Achtung Baby reissue, CD by U2
Review: Music for the Black Room, by Sarah Maclay
Poem: “A Friend Passes Away While I’m Birdwatching in Bolsa Chica”
Re)verb Issue 7
Commentary: Gary Tomlinson, G. Murray Thomas, Larry Colker
Review: Redeemable Air Mileage, by Fernando Castro
Poems: My Worst Job, “You’re Kidney Just Arrived at LAX” and Where I Come From
From the Next... Archives: 1995: The Year Poets Got Hooked (Up)
Review: Knocking at the Door, Edited by Lisa Sisler & Lea Deschenes
Haiku: Long Beach Transit Center
From the Next... Archives: Lumbering Dinosaurs, a Report on the 1994 ABA
Review: Paul Simon’s So Beautiful So What
Review: Nick Lowe’s Labour of Lust
Poem: Giving It Back
Review: Working the Wreckage of the American Poem
From the Next... Archives: Jam’s/Java Garden (Venue Review & Obituary)
Haiku in 60 Degrees, winter haiku from Southern California
Southern California Haiku Study Group
From the Next... Archives: The Iguana Cafe (Venue Review)
Reviwews: Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water
Poem: Cows on the Freeway
Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug Anthology
Review: Michael Miller’s College Town
Review: R.E.M.’s Collapse into Now
Aging Punk: Rock is Dead! And it’s about time!
Reviews: New Poets of the American West & Swimming Through Amber by E. Amato
Aging Punk: When the Innovative Becomes Mainstream
Best Albums of 2010 (Contributor)
Best Reissues of 2010 (Contributor)
Review: Crazy for You by Best Coast
The Aging Punk: Classic Rock’s Midlife Crisis
Review: Live in Vancouver by The Doors
Review: The Union by Elton John & Leon Russell
Review: National Ransom by Elvis Costello
Classic Albums: David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane
Review: Clapton by Eric Clapton
Review: Band of Joy by Robert Plant
Review: Mean Old Man by Jerry Lee Lewis
Reviews: This World So Frail by Jean Barrett Holloway
& Haiku Wars by David G. Lanoue
Review: Le Noise by Neil Young
Review: Here Lies Love by David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
The Aging Punk: Great Underrated Bands
The Aging Punk: The Five Most Overrated Bands