I am a retired musician and arts educator living in Westchester, IL.  I have been writing poetry since 1981, all of which has been informed by formal studies in music, philosophy, and social history.  I love the sound and technology of language.

 

I didn’t come out of the closet as a writer until 2009 when I showed some of my work (for the first time!) to total strangers at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.  It was scary but wonderful.

 

It has always been clear to me that my teaching and writing voices are similar.  Although my teaching voice is long-winded while my writing voice is not, I have always been attracted to language that titillates, cajoles, angers and pokes fun – not always in that order.  Apparently, that is truer on paper than it is in the air.