Overwhelmed. Thanks to those who bought my book and to Unsolicited Press. I greatly enjoyed sharing poems and stories at AWP.
You can order The Poet’s Garage from Unsolicited Press or your favorite bookstore.
Author, Writer, Poet
Overwhelmed. Thanks to those who bought my book and to Unsolicited Press. I greatly enjoyed sharing poems and stories at AWP.
You can order The Poet’s Garage from Unsolicited Press or your favorite bookstore.
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing all the talented Unsolicited Press authors, and I was honored to be among them.
Looking forward to a marathon reading with contributors to Welcome to Philadelphia, a new poetry anthology from Moonstone Press celebrating the 2022 AWP Conference in Philadelphia. I’m honored that the editor, Larry Robins, included my poem “It Starts with Hemingway.”
Here is the link to register for the zoom event: https://moonstoneartscenter.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=424f917e249b50a5495a507ba&id=219eb98c2a&e=701137b0b3
The reading will be held live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. With inspiring words, dozens of poets, and plenty of beer, the event is sure to be a blast.
Here is more information from the Moonstone website: https://moonstoneartscenter.org/event/welcome-to-philadelphia-2022/
Just for fun and to celebrate the launch of my poetry collection, The Poet’s Garage, from Unsolicited Press, here’s a brief podcast of the title poem.
Based on a true story, the poem tells how we learned there was another Terry Tierney, a suspected felon, living in Lincoln, Nebraska when we moved there. My arrival aroused several official computers. The police and the social services department thought I lied about my quiet life as a graduate student supported by my tolerant, librarian wife.
Ironically, when I wasn’t distracted by writing poetry in Lincoln, I was working on my dissertation about William Makepeace Thackeray and his various protagonists as doubles of himself. Those doubles have much less contrast with one another than me and my apparent double.
The cover of The Poet’s Garage depicts the poem, complete with pools of grease where lines have spilled, the cardboard box of active verbs, and the files of proper nouns. As in the poem, the poet has eluded arrest, so far.
The Poet’s Garage is available from Unsolicited Press, Powell’s, Barnes and Noble, Amazon and other retailers. You can also support your local bookstore by searching for them on Indiebound.