Because I Can’t Whistle

Steve’s work has appeared in literary publications in America, England, Canada, France, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, India Australia, and New Zealand. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry in 2002, 2003 & 2006. Recently, his work has appeared in The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Mid-American Poetry Review, The Evergreen Review Ambit, Atlantic, Orbis, Poetry Bay, The Yellow Medicine Review & The Sun. In England he won a Reader’s Award in Orbis Magazine for his poem “Hawks.” In the United States he won the Josh Samuels’ Annual Poetry Competition (2003) for his poem: “The Man Who Loved Mermaids.” His play THE KILLER had its world premiere at the GARAGE THEATER in Long Beach, California (Sept- October 2006). He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Chapman University for his writing. Most recently his poem “Gregor’s Wings” was nominated for The Best of The Net by Poetic Diversity.