Welcome!

head shotHello and thanks for vis­it­ing my website. Here you can find out about my work as a poet, essay­ist, trans­la­tor and busi­ness writer. There are sam­ple poems from my books here, links to the sites where you can buy those books, excerpts from reviews, links to online work and more. There’s an Events page, and a form you can use to get in touch with me. If you’ve got a busi­ness and you need to have some writ­ing done, there’s also infor­ma­tion about Writ­ing The Future Of Your Busi­ness, a business-writing ser­vice which I started in the 1990s. Full-time, I am a Pro­fes­sor in the Eng­lish Depart­ment of Nas­sau Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Gar­den City, NY, where I coör­di­nate The Cre­ative Writ­ing Project and teach a vari­ety of courses, includ­ing Fresh­man Com­po­si­tion, Cre­ative Writ­ing and Tech­ni­cal Writ­ing. (If you’d like infor­ma­tion about my work at NCC, please go to my fac­ulty web page.) Finally, this web­site con­tains my blog, It’s All Con­nected, where you can read what I have to say about, in no par­tic­u­lar order, lit­er­a­ture and social jus­tice; poetry and sex; trans­la­tion and mas­culin­ity; Jew­ish iden­tity and teach­ing; gen­der and Iran; writ­ing and fem­i­nism; and what­ever else moves me to write — because it really is, all of it, connected.