My Chapbook Ghosts For Jesse Jewel will be published later this year. Pre orders will be taken mid August for a November 2009 release. Why poetry? No one reads poetry anymore and if they do they subscribe to the dead poets club. I have written poetry for over twenty years. My poems are a personal account of how I make sense of the world around me and I had no intention of ever making them public. That was until I moved to rural Kentucky. The land I purchased was part of a farm that was sold to pay the nursing home bill of the original owners. My neighbor is the son of that owner and he now lives on less than one acre of land when he used to roam hundreds of acres. Ghosts For Jesse Jewel chronicles his early life on the farm and how he has addressed the changes in lifestyle caused by the misfortune in his family. These poems are short, easily read and each one is a story in itself. I encourage you to take a look at Ghosts For Jesse Jewel if only for the reason to glimpse a lifestyle that is quickly fading from our American landscape.