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...
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. Thi...
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...
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 uniq...