Poetry

Metaphor Dice

February 18, 2019

After receiving payment for a freelance assignment, I treated myself to Metaphor Dice. I’d heard about it a few different places. As their marketing material says, they “make the formation of metaphors as easy as [read more]

Poetry

2017 Pride Specials

June 3, 2017

June is LGBTQ Pride Month- And We’re Celebrating Save 40% on Digital Gryphon Publishing Poetic Publications The following titles of poetic prose and Pride lyrics are available at incredible discounts in honour of LGBTQ Pride [read more]

Family, Identity

After The Bath

September 23, 2016

As a young gay man in the ’80s I was not only a regular patron of Toronto’s bath houses (“steambath” or “men’s health club“), I worked the overnight shift at one for a summer. Although [read more]

My Books

In Pursuit of a Dream

November 26, 2015

In Pursuit of a Dream My collection of poetry from the 1980s is now available at Amazon. This edition has slightly smaller pages (5″x8″), but has all the same content as the original hard cover [read more]

LGBTITQQ2S

Nimoy, Tovey and Stereotypes

March 2, 2015

Leonard Nimoy worked hard to escape a future limited by his being typecast as Mr. Spock; arguably the most iconic character from the Star Trek universe. He struggled to express other aspects of his personality, [read more]

Poetry

Somewhere- A Poetic Triptych

December 20, 2014

The cold weather, sniffles, and general malaise of the season brought the following three pieces of mine to mind. SOMEWHERE Somewhere, I can see the light– Deep within I cried last night. My only hope [read more]