Pleased to see this poem appear so close to Earth Day. I didn’t intend to write an environmental poem but the muse obviously had a greater purpose.

https://thegreenlightliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/national-poetry-month-day-22/

This poem features one of my favorite places, the beach in Santa Cruz, California. The Green Light Literary Journal is running daily poems for National Poetry Month.

https://thegreenlightliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/national-poetry-month-day-15/

This poem is drawn from my childhood growing up near Minneapolis, so I’m excited to see it appear in a Minnesota journal! The link below includes an audio file. I recently read “The Crossing” before a jazz band at the San Francisco Writers Festival, which was great fun, so when you listen to the audio you can imagine a slow, bluesy jazz progression in the background.

https://www.splitrockreview.org/terry-tierney

My short story “Sack the Quarterback” is available in an anthology from Spank the Carp. Very nice to see the story in printed! Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546955615

We are always younger in our memories…

Terry Tierney – Smelling the Rain

Extended the excerpt from Lucky Rice, please read and enjoy. The novel is now complete!

This poem is inspired by a real baseball my grandfather gave me. I still have it some place, and one day I will sniff it out.

https://formercactus.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/my-only-home-run-by-terry-tierney/