New TCTV Interview

Feb 22, 2015 | Past Notes

Thanks to TCTV for hosting me on their public affairs programming. Appreciate the good questions from the youth who interviewed me!  

Advertising for Indie Authors (Amazon KDP)

Feb 1, 2015 | Past Notes

Amazon always seems to be adding new innovations targeted at giving indie publishers, small presses and authors more power over how their books appear and how their books are marketed to the reading public. I’m a hybrid author, with books...
Poem: Praying with one eye open

Poem: Praying with one eye open

Jan 23, 2015 | Past Notes, Poetry

published in 2003, appeared in Seattle School of Theology and Ministry Review praying with one eye open. Ned Hayes (after Mark Strand)   through dark windows, the clouds move like one thinks a bird might, old ghost caught by light, scattered feathers fractured...
Poem: Praying with one eye open

Poem: Elegy

Jan 22, 2015 | Past Notes, Poetry

my third published poem, appeared in Lost Creek Elegy, for Doug Dykstra. Ned Hayes (died October 1989, Alaska, age fourteen) Like woken beasts we staggered awkward through the snow You might have cried, the strain showing in your cheekbones and big eyes, when we...

America’s Most Literate Cities

Jan 22, 2015 | Bookstores, On Books, Past Notes

February 21, 2014 by Thomas C. Frohlich Via 27-7 Wall Street Blog For the fourth straight year, Washington, D.C. is the most literate city in the United States, according to a recent study on literacy. The study, by Central Connecticut State University (CCSU),...