The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Grand Slam Dreams brimming over, childhood stretched out in legs, this is the moment replayed on winter days when frost covers the field, wh...

AT&T Park, San Francisco, July 2016

adjusted detail of The Tired Boxer, a bronze by Douglas Tilden, from the de Young Museum , San Francisco, August 2015

statue of Willie Mays outside of AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, 1 July 2015

Amateur Fighter for my father What's left is the tiny gold glove hanging from his key chain. But, before that, he had come to boxi...

Here's another boxing poem, and it's also another one by Ishmael Reed: Petite Kid Everett The bantamweight King of Newark He ...

the loser and the next I remembered I'm on a table, everybody's gone; the head of bravery under light, scowling, flailing me dow...

A couple of Thursdays ago I was in Berkeley seeing a play with an all-female cast and then the Tuesday after I was back in Berkeley seeing ...

April is several things besides National Poetry Month, and one of them is the start of the baseball season. Baseball is probably the most fa...

Heard during various commercials during today's Super Bowl game: snippets of music by: Verdi, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Handel, Orf...

Better luck next year to everyone else. . . I'm already receiving merchandising e-mails! Above is the Ferry Building at dawn, lit orange...

two views of San Francisco City Hall, lit orange for the Giants' National League pennant race; the other team color is provided by the b...

So here was how my Friday evening went: Having hours and hours to kill after work and before curtain time, I walked from the Financial Distr...

for John Singer Sargent

from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

I’ve never been to the actual Halloween in the Castro, but last Saturday I went to Jack Curtis Dubowsky’s new opera by that name (at Jack’s ...

The story is that we're more and more a visual culture, but I think we're really a movie culture. Back when I still saw movies in mo...

Super-sized remnants Picked over and abandoned on plates and in Bowls OK, kind of a stretch. Go Steelers, though I'm OK either way, unli...

I was interested in a couple of plays that Thick House Theater was doing this season, but I ended up subscribing to the whole series, mostly...

No, I did not enjoy the Super Bowl. Thanks for asking. But now that the game's final five minutes, which I couldn't even stand to wa...