How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

Whether it’s salmon, mahi-mahi, or the swordfish that locals whisper is the best in California, each fillet gets the same respectful treatment—cooked over mesquite wood that imparts a subtle smokiness ...

I’ve often argued that our most popular literary form isn’t lyric poetry, the short story and certainly not the novel – it’s theater and, more specifically, melodrama.