Spoil

apologia
I’ve been writing poetry since I was seven; I’m now 46. This collection includes most of my older poems that I can still stand to look at. I like to think I have a pretty realistic sense of my limitations as a poet, but I’ve worked long and hard at this craft, and if some of the results make people happy, that’s almost good enough. (I’m awfully glad, though, that most of the poets I admire have higher standards!)

contact
Email me at bontasaurus [at] yahoo [dot] com.

my other sites

• Via Negativa, my main blog
• Shadow Cabinet, a selection of some of my more recent poems
• qarrtsiluni, an online literary magazine I co-edit with Beth Adams
• Moving Poems, my collection of the best video poetry I can find on the web
• The Morning Porch, my daily microblog
• Woodrat photohaiku — moments of attention from a Pennsylvania mountaintop

rights
Header image © Lori Witzel (original here). Used by permission.

All other content is by Dave Bonta and available for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. For web use, attribution should include a link back to this site. For other use, attribution may be limited to author’s name (Dave Bonta) and title (Spoil) – printed-out URLs are superfluous in the age of Google.