Recently Published Poetry

The International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine Third Quarter 2025 edition, Enduring Voices: Life with Disabilities, Invisible Illnesses, and Neurodivergence, includes my contrapuntal "Pain" (on page 63).

Enduring Voices' contributors capture the reality of living with various medical conditions and neurodivergence types (their own or their loved ones') with unflinching honesty and vulnerability, reaffirming autonomy over invisible illnesses or hidden personal struggles. Our personal essays, poems, and original artwork emphasize the resilience required to live through each day.

The IHRAM Press magazine was created to celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world, offering a space for poetry and prose to resonate with reflections of emotion, hope, and the enduring connection to one's identity.

fifth wheel press included my nonet, "Who to Blame", in light 'em up, a digital anthology "about fire and burning and rebirth just as much as it is about resistance and survival."

Editor nat raum asks those who read light 'em up to "remember that anger can be power, and that stored, collective power leads to liberation."

fifth wheel press, an independent community-focused publisher, features art and writing by queer, trans, and gender variant creatives.

My grandfather, an orthodox rabbi, was born in Palestine, but spent most of his life in the United States. After raising a family here and seeing more than a dozen grandchildren growing up, he returned to live out the remainder of his life in Israel. Two of his sons and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren followed. All told, more than a hundred descendants lived there the last time my parents visited.

I have never traveled there. I have never had any desire to go other than to visit family, especially as I learned more and more about the Nakba, Israel's apartheid, genocidal settler expansion, and attempts to ethnically cleanse the Indigenous Palestinian population over the past three-quarters of a decade.

Israel's atrocities have accelerated over the past year and I express my disgust, detestation, and despair in my poetry. You can read one of those poems, "You are the Monsters", in the inaugural issue of Defiance & Dialogue (page 6) from The Blunt Space, a "hub for art, advocacy, and culture" where being blunt is a movement, "where we defy the rules" to be "authentically creative without choosing between our art, our culture, or our mission." The first issue "is dedicated to individuals and communities fighting against societal imperialism and oppression."

Note: as an anti-Zionist Jew I very much understand (having personally experienced the latter) that Anti-Zionism ≠ Anti-Semitism.

Recent Non-Fiction

"Poor Student Performance"

The Oregon legislature, governor, education department, school administrators, and teachers have all been playing the blame game as to what/who is responsible for the poor performance of Oregon school students. None have them have discussed or even admitted the probable primary reason.

I name the most likely culprit with links to supporting studies on my blog.

"Why I Am a Tech Luddite"