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My poem, “The Hummingbird,” is in the latest TINY MOMENTS

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The latest “Tiny Moments,” just out, has my poem, “The Hummingbird”: The Hummingbird Same day late July, every year by backyard fence,single blur of beryl green and ruby, finger-length,squeaked like sneakers running polished wood,hovered over foxglove and impatiens, unseen long bill probing pink and purple,unseen tongue grooves lapping pollen,unseen stretched wings stroking circles. I called […]

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Dogs and dancers dominate the imaginary world created by TV commercials

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About nine years ago, I wrote an OpEdge article that in the idealized world of television commercials people care about their pets as much as they do about their children. At the time it seemed as if every other commercial featured dogs or cats, and in most, the animal was a best friend, family member, […]

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Minyan Magazine has published “Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen”

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Minyan Magazine has just published my poem, “Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen,” my take on the Adam and Eve myth. Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen Some say it’s an apple, some say an orange or fig—hanging at arm’s length from one branch of a tree of life, the product of action, not action itself,   […]

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Free To Be Whatever You Want To Be As Long As You Consume

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The “Barbie” movie completes the conversion of Barbie from a symbol of paternalistic sexism to a hero of feminism.Nobody but old Boomers will remember that when Barbie first came out in 1959, it quickly became a symbol of women’ subjugation to traditional paternalism—her oversized breasts alone seemed to fulfill a man’s fantasy more than a […]

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GREAT REVIEW OF THE BROTHERS SILVER IN THE LATEST VASSAR REVIEW:

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Countering Culture by Jessica de Koninck The Brothers Silver by Marc Jampole (Owl Canyon Press, 2021) Stories of family trauma, parent-child relationships, and sibling rivalry are part of the human psyche. They are central to the opening stories of the Bible as well as to those of earlier traditions. In the original trauma, God expels […]

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