Do nice guys really finish last?
Evan Moore struggles through the breathtaking wilderness of Alaska and a brutal summer job in a slaughterhouse to discover that life is not a game.
Who is the fittest to survive when we are all a bunch of oddballs? We are all anomalies of nature, composed of the unknown and endure through a will of our own.
Evan learns that life is a musical language that flourishes as it is sustained. There is no race. There is no finish. The real challenge is to survive, not alone, but together in the refreshing novelties of our differences.
This nice guy...

Martha is a dancer. She was dancing before she was born. She dances through her childhood. She dances through her career.
Dance is the perfect subject to explore the physical reality of our lives. Dance is an activity that excites the dynamics of involvement while minimizing disruptions. Typically, society advices individuals that disruptions can only be avoided through compromise, acquiescence, subjugation and abnegation. Dance demonstrates how life may be pursued to the vigorous extremes while maintaining harmony. There is no more perfect melding of robust exertion and intricate...

Many of the poems in Broken Open depict the poet's experiences reciting poetry to the public in the streets of New York City. The collection includes a variety of poetic forms. Of these forms, the sonnet is prominent, along with a few varieties of curtal sonnets and a ballad on Emperor Norton, the folk legend of San Francisco. There are also numerous homages to poets and a scholar who have inspired him through the years such as Marianne Moore, Hazel Hall, John Keats, Robert Frost, John Rawls and others.