These poems are anchored in what Seamus Heaney describes as poetry's need for a "sense of moving on, crossing something....towards a destination and a transition."   

Daniel Currie cannot stop watching television as a way to cope with his memory of findingm at age 15, his father frozen to death in his car on Cape Cod during the Blizzard of 1978. 

Set in Kansas City, Marcello Andrade narrates the story of how he came to make the most consequential decision of his life.

In this collection of prose poems, John Michael Flynn shares memories and impressions which include walking the ruins of anicent cities in Asia Minor. 

Whit Blanchard, from the cattle town of McPherson, Kansa, learns at the age of nineteen that his best friend Richard has committed suicide. Whit's response is to pause his studies at Kansas State to travel...

This collection of essays includes eight previously published magazine pieces on travel, the author's childhood, the writing process, and friendship.These are the essays as they appear in the collection:   

He calls himself Gardner. He's consented to a US Government experiment in the use of MDMA injections as therapy for veterans and former government employees with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder who've...

These are poems about places the author has visited and lived in, ranging from Romania to Pittsburgh, home of Iron City beer. 

John Michael Flynn is an English teacher at Piedmont Virginia Community College in central Virginia. Various links to his published prose and poetry can be found at his web site, http://www.basilrosa.com....

In Elsewhere For A While, John Michael Flynn turns his attention toward those places which in his past have intrigued and helped shape him.     

These poems, written in simple clear language, are concerned with self-reflection and evaluation, examining aspects of what it means to be human.

In this collection, Continuous Present, John Michael Flynn correlates his poems to moves from his study of the Asian martial art of Tai Chi Chuan.