Hey blog readers, thanks for visiting! I just checked the blog stats - wow! A lot of visitors from around the world! A few 2025 updates on my books:
Congrats to The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America (Kindle 2011) for recently charting on Amazon's Gay Poetry Top 100 Bestseller list! I'll be dropping Pride poetry June 1st, stay tuned!
My short story Amish Road Trip is now available via the new Alien Buddha Press anthology Summer Sucks!
A year ago Alien Buddha Press published my "greatest hits" collection Some Are and Most Aren't and It's Always Been Like That: Selected Poems 2004-2024 which was a trip down memory lane! My new book Big Island Beatnik is another look back, to my Hawaii era through poetics and photography:
"The writings in Big Island Beatnik depict intoxicating vistas of discovery as Schwartz explores his surroundings through a lens of psychogeography, its influence on his search for spiritual context to his experiences. I am left with a feeling of haunting elegy, and yet Schwartz speaks not only of elegiac loss but of re-birth, replenishment and continuation, with exhilarating portrayals of volcanoes and skies and seas that are themselves living entities."
- u.v.ray, Author of Speed Trials 94.
Lastly, you can find my Detroit themed poetry and photography in Alien Buddha Zine #75 coming soon!
