Historically, I was captured into 19th century poetry by my mother, who forced me to memorize all of Longfellow’s poem Evangeline. (Btw, I will be one of several readers of that poem in an event at the chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery on February 24, so let me know if you can attend please). In…
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Global Update/Where Have I Been?
Good question as I have not posted since last summer’s end. It has been a busy time although you did not know it–until now. Prose: Amazon and B&N carry my seven published books of which two are prose: Noir Ain’t the Half of It is a collection of short stories with foci on, well, noir–but…
Help Me Decide: What Next?
With the publication of the novel The Event I now have time to turn to my next project. I continue to write poetry and short stories, and next year I will try my hand at another collection of recent poetry, but beyond that I am considering a couple of projects. One possibility is to edit and publish…
Novel Published at Last
It has been a few months since I posted. I was busy with final edits to my first published novel, and it came out August 1: title is The Event. You can access the book at Amazon, and your ordering the book (and if you like it, then posting a positive Amazon review) would be greatly appreciated. …
Something Novel About My Novel
For months I have been promising announcement of my seventh book, a novel entitled EVENT. It was hoped for a Spring birth but it isn’t going to make it– well, perhaps but not likely. A final read by my final reader resulted in a two hour phone call explaining my failures: lack of clarity of…
About Parallel Universes
The Case for Parallel Universes If you pay attention, you learn that our universe is abuzz with various theories of alternative universes. Part of the reason for the buzz is the nascent state of metaverses, electronic worlds that produces gaming, advertising opportunities, and the counter-intuitive practice of purchasing merchandise to be worn by or used…
Announcing a New Book of Poetry
I am excited to announce the publication of my newest (fifth) book of poetry, entitle Burn-Out. The volume of almost 200 pages contains poetry written during the two years ending August, 2022. The prompts for this work are the terrible state of the world (war, pestilence, loss of hope) and the poetic effort to come…
Attend Poetry Reading November 13
Please join me at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA at 2pm on Sunday, November 13, for a poetry reading sponsored by the New England Poetry Club. I am honored to be one of the featured readers, and will read from my most recently published book (Laertes in America) as well as a couple of new…
About a New Novel
Many of you well know that I have been attempting to find an agent or publisher for my most recent novel, a thriller which I thought was pretty topical: the US military releases a biological weapon into the water supply of Russian Ukraine. Alas, those well known fellas whose names scream out at you from…
Cantab Lounge in Cambridge Reborn
My post in mid-July noted a read at the Chat Noir poetry club in Paris. Recently I read in a very similar venue (basement of Cantab Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge), an historic venue and home before COVID of various slams and weekly readings with open mike. Exciting to be back to the re-opened…
About Time and Space
My daughter recently pointed me to an article by an MIT professor discussing the possibility of actually finding life on a different planet. That article triggered a poem set forth below; I did forward the poem to Professor Lightman who, it turns out, is himself a published poet. While I have not been favored with…
Where There’s a Will There’s a Way
A few years ago, I bought an old will in an antique store and recently battled through the handwriting and old English to translate it. It was so interesting that it forced me to write a poem about it. More about the poem later; for now, I set forth below a will written by an…
A Couple of Great Lines of Poetry
The New England Poetry Club has an open mic once a month. After three readings by selected poets, the mic is thrown open for about 10 callers each of whom can present one poem. If you are interested in listening in, or in having a chance to read, let me know at smh@smhonigauthor.com. But in…
Help Wanted: Short Story Department
We just went through a time change which reminded me that around the time of the last change (“fall back”) I got bogged down in a short story. The story is called The Lost Hour and the premise is simple: the hour that you lose when you fall back gets set aside for future use,…
About Ukraine
We all know what the news tells us about Ukraine. I await an outpouring of poetry and prose about what is happening there. Focus on this was sharpened for me when someone in my office, born in Russia, came to me and apologized (as if she had invaded herself). If you come across prose or…
Folks Like Me
Recently I was honored by election to the board of the New England Poetry Club, a century-old institution founded by the likes of Amy Lowell and Robert Frost which clearly lowered its standards markedly based on my elevation to directorship. The Club is full of people far more accomplished than I, and thus I am…
Imagination and Poetry
All imagination is not poetry, but all poetry is imagination. This may not strike you as startling news, but then again we are struck by things which are in our own path, and that includes the same path of thinking. Here is a definition of “imagination” that would not likely occur to you, as it…