is an architectural wood carver and has authored three dozen articles and three books on architectural and decorative woodcarving. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Shenandoah, Green Mountains Review, The Lyric, Hampden –Sydney Poetry Review, and Southern Poetry Review, among others. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and master’s degree from the University of Vermont.

shipped out of San Francisco as a deck engineer machinist to Asia, Europe, and North Africa, where he studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco. He has lived in Germany since 1984, working as a shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook, and postal worker.

has published two books of poems, Rags of Prayer and Ordinary Time, both from Moon Pie Press. He received a master’s of fine arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1975. Since 1983, he has taught English at Southern Maine Community College, where he is department chairman and shop steward of his union. He is a poetry editor at The Café Review.

lives in California where he writes poetry and teaches Zen. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Post Road, Quiddity, Hotel Amerika, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pleiades, and other journals. His chapbook, The Welter of Me & You, won the 2013 Coal Hill Chapbook Prize.