Traveling for No Good Reason (2nd ed.)

These poems in Traveling for No Good Reason tell stories, and they invite the reader to enter into those stories.  Whether the poet is drinking Cuban coffee in Miami, visiting Joseph Brodsky’s grave in Venice, teaching writing workshops in a Florida prison, learning to read Greek in New York City in the 1980s, or trying to make sense out of a love that is unexpected and undeserved, the stories are about the recompense we receive for our losses, the pleasures and ideas that allow us to start