Works by Stephen Honig
Fiction, poetry, and reflections drawn from a lifetime of experience.

The Event
A high-stakes international thriller.
A scientist’s discovery sets off a chain of espionage, military tension,
and global consequences stretching from Washington to Moscow and beyond.
Prose

Pool Talk and Other Stories
Stories of friendship, memory, and the quiet complexities of everyday life.
Poetry

Messing Around with Words
Collection of poetry that explore topics of contempt, love, frustration of life and personal experiences.

Obligatory COVID Chapbook
Collection that captures the evolving moods, daily struggles, and grim atmosphere of the first ten months of the pandemic.

Laertes in America – Collected Poetry 2018-2020
Laertes as a metaphor for the universal human experience of struggle, aging, and mortality within the context of American life.

Burn-Out
Examine the emotional exhaustion of modern life, focusing on the intersection of personal relationships and global crises like war and plague.

Unrequited Evils – Poems of Life & Death in a World Askew
Explores the transition from the COVID-19 pandemic into the “malaise” of modern life.

Honig & Son
An ambitious bi-coastal poetic dialogue between father and son that explores the hereditary nature of poetry.


