A random poem, written on a birthday years before, finds a new life when a series of interrelated profiles come together in a most unexpected way. This is what constitutes A Walk in the City, writer/poet Thomas Porky McDonald's New York City travelogue. A compilation of pieces written originally for an internal website at his workplace in New York City transit, this volume shares brief, yet effective vignettes on a number of various sites in the city?some famous, and others hardly on the radar. It is dedicated to the average tourist and/or the lifetime New Yorker. McDonald's love of the place...

The seventh collection of poetry to be released by Thomas Porky McDonald, And These Thy Gifts: Poems 2007-2009, contains another five-book set of unique material. In Theresa, Red and Serenity, the self-styled ramble poet began an arc that would permeate throughout the entire volume. Pieces like "God through the Lens of a Kaleidoscope," "You Wonder Where We're At," and "These Thereafters" all spoke of the current world, in relation to a world that once was. "Where is My Spy?" and "Irish Girls in Waiting" cited friends McDonald had made in his two decades working in NYC Transit, and "Incident...