Coos River Reverberations: Poems of River, Farm & Forest (2021);

Amble: Poems (2021);

Idling Intuitions: Poems (2022);

Mast Years: Poems (2022);

Practice Poems - Blog (2023 to Present); 

Upcoming Projects:

• Adapt a novella set in Coos Bay and Portland into a short film screenplay. It is now in screenplay format. I’m collaborating with a friend. We’re finalizing some story elements. The plot is pretty solid (TBD)—update - (late 2026). I have yet to revisit this story. I’ll work on it in 2025.

  Three adventure short stories set in the Coos River Valley of Oregon (TBD); Two of the stories are in revision. I have one more to write. I’ve written them to connect around a central theme. These stories are about a first-generation, Western Oregon family, originally from a Swedish-speaking area from the coast of Western Finland. Update 2.11.25 - Rough Draft Complete. My goal is to launch this book in October of this year. Update 1.14.25 - I have expanded one of my short stories to at least novella length. It is a historical fiction with some fantasy elements for a YA and older audience. It is set on the Oregon Coast. It’s a love story. I am using Scrivener and Google Docs. I’ve used Ingram Spark for years for self-publishing, but it has changed. I have also used KDP. I plan to use only KDP moving forward.

• I know some writers are having success with Canva for book covers. I used it for the internal, written files for Only You Can Say instead of Adobe Indesign, but InDesign has a nicer look, in my opinion. It’s hard to beat Canva's ease of use. I have used Adobe Illustrator (with Sarah) for past covers, but I don’t enjoy making book covers anymore. I want to plot and write. I may source those covers in the future unless I can find an easy way to create them (at a low cost) in Canva.

• Update 2.11.25 - Finished. On Sale Now through Amazon and all the other places Ingram Spark distributes books. My latest collection, Only You Can Say: New and Selected Poems, covers all I needed to say in my 40s. I’m incredibly pleased with how it turned out. I’ve continued to plug away at writing poems. Though I’ll never reach the level of proficiency and excellence I see in some of my favorite poets, I do believe I contributed something important and meaningful to the space. If I can write for another 40 or 50 years, I might even write the one perfect poem that always eludes me. Or did I write it already?

  And, wow, don’t the losses keep piling up as we get older? Each year, we keep losing great people too soon. I live with words, and still, in the face of the loss of others, I never know what to say at the moment. All too often, my words fall through me and get heavier with sadness. I expect many people to feel the same way as they age. What are light words in the face of heavy suffering and loss? That’s why we write, I guess. I plan to take a long break from publishing poetry after this project. I’ve covered most of the ground I wished to cover. I’m enjoying writing novellas/novels now. It was always the plan to publish my poetry first. That will be my focus for the next few years. I’ll keep writing poems, but it feels like it could be five to ten years or longer before I publish again.

• Release some MP3 Audio recordings of new poems from my upcoming collection (2025). Update: 3.4.2025 - Some have been attached: Poem A, Only You Can Say, Turning the Gravel, On the River We Float II, Seekers of Power, and Trail Between Dreams.

• Post remaining poems from Coos River Reverberations and Amble. It will take some work; I may release some over the summer in random batches. Conversely, poems from Idling Intuitions and Mast Years are more poem starters (though I worked hard on them, and they are a solid finished product, they are experimental and unfinished ideas for me), so if someone wants to read those, it’s best to buy those particular books to read them in print form. I’m not as excited about having them float around the internet. My favorite poems from those collections are published in Only You Can Say: New and Selected Poems (2025).