Alan Glass – A Poem

Last year in Montreal, came upon a really good exhibit on Alan Glass at the Museum of Fine Arts.  I didn’t know much about him, but I was taken with his approach and his art, and so I wrote the following snippet, which is supposed to be something of a mirror to the work.  Enjoy.ContinueContinue reading “Alan Glass – A Poem”

Unopened

Doug Hoekstra’s third book, a collection of published and unpublished poems titled Unopened will hit the streets February 5, 2019.  The book also features Hoekstra’s original artwork.  Publicity will be handled by the Nashville-based JKS Communications.  More details on this site and elsewhere, as they happen.  

Unopened Cover Art

Been working on a collection of poems for release this year and decided to do the artwork myself (samples below). The concept came from the notion that art is like a collection of fragments—memory, imagination, anticipation—broken and reassembled. There are two poems in the collection that are central to its whole—the title poem, “Unopened,” whichContinueContinue reading “Unopened Cover Art”