Aikido

I've been involved more or less in martial arts since I was a boy, seeking a style that worked for me. I did a few years in both judo and karate-do, and dabbled in aikido and tai chi chuan when I was in college. I have to admit that as a boy, I wasn't very good or did I really care to be. I enjoyed doing it, but I wasn't very serious.

Along about graduate school, I decided I really wanted to do aikido, and since I was going to be living in Japan for a while (teaching English), I figured it was a good time to start. So a friend of mine introduced me to the Fukui Aikikai in Fukui Prefecture, under the direction, at that time, of Michio Hayashi-sensei and Tetsuo Kasashima-sensei. That was a more than a few years ago. They were very kind to me and I left as a newly-minted shodan (first degree black belt). After a few months in Hawaii at Wago Enten Dojo, I moved to Massachusetts, where I've continued practicing at the MIT Aikido Club (my main dojo) and the Harvard Aikikai.

I am currently a sandan or third degree black belt.

Tai Chi Chuan

So a couple of years ago, I started taking Yang-style tai chi chuan. I began, through the recommendation of a friend, at the Cambridge Center of Adult Education's Tai Chi Chuan for Beginners course instructed by Cho Li, which I enjoyed a lot. From there I joined Cho's class under the direction of his teacher (and now also mine), Tai-Chun Pan. The website for our class is here which includes our curriculum and lineage.

Poetry

I've tried to keep my publishing going over the years and a number of the poems I've been blessed enough to have been accepted have been put online or mentioned in those generous journal/review websites. For that I am grateful. I've collected a list of these and put them here. They are not a comprehensive list, as a few of my publication credits don't have websites, didn't include a table of contents for some issues, or have, unfortunately, closed.

I hope that you will visit these sites, maybe buy a copy of one of their issues, and help support new literature that appears both in paper and electronic forms.

My Poems Online

Here is a list of poems that are currently online.

Ballard Street Poetry Review Climbing Fuji.

SN Review, three poems.

Get Something Read, three poems.

The Connecticut River Review, The Bruised Sky.

Best Poem, Rebirth.

The Pedestal Magazine, Saying Goodbye.

Poetry Credits Listed Online

This is a list of poetry credits that are online, but do not have any poems available online.

Ballard Street Poetry Jouranl, Summer 2010, The Practicality of Art.

Frogpond, the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, Index, page 44, Crossing the Charles, 25:2.

The Clackamas Literary Review, Spring/Summer 2001, Strawberry Patches, Rabbit in the Moon.

Bamboo Ridge, the Hawaii Writer's Quarterly, page 41, Yukimi BR#60: Winter 1994.