I’m extremely pleased that Cold Mountain Review has selected my essay, Speech Therapy for publication in its 2022 Spring/Summer issue. It is the first essay from my work-in-progress memoir, currently titled Pillbox. Speech Therapy explores the psychological and emotional ramifications of being born with a cleft palate. I thank the editors of Cold Mountain Review […]
K’in Selects “Opportunities for Stillness”
My poem, “Opportunities for Stillness” was selected by the editors at K’in to be included in their fall issue #8. I was thrilled as this is a poem centered on my recovery from triple bypass surgery and is part of a broader chapbook called “The Historical Heart.” Check it out here! https://kinliteraryjournal.com/poetry-schabarum-issue-8
Airstreaming Amazon Reviews
Every once in awhile I check to see if anyone has written a review or even bought the book. It’s crazy to think you have work out there that people will read, let alone that it moves them to write something nice about a novel you spent years writing. Sometimes, I wish I’d taken this […]
The Outside Toy
The Outside Toy is nothing but a stick you dragged up from the lake where it floated perhaps from the mountains we loved where you raced, a gazelle over felled trees, or dipped your muzzle into clear streams. We were so alike all those years, before my heart collapsed and you laid there all […]
3 Poems at Cathexis Northwest Press
Thank you to the editor(s) at Cathexis Northwest Press for their publication of three poems from my See America collection. It’s a pleasure to be included in their September 2019 issue with other fine poets. Please click on the link below: https://www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/covinatoblytheca1977
The Following Sea
Thank you to the editors of Floating Bridge Press for inclusion of my poem in Pontoon. It’s beautifully presented. The Following Sea
Bruce Springsteen and Me
Lately, you’ve read some of my poems detailing the struggle I’ve had over the year with recovering from a heart attack, my triple bypass, gall bladder surgery and pancreatitis. It was a full year of not knowing if I’d ever feel good again, or work doing what I love, or being able to do the […]
All You Who Sleep Tonight
1 year ago this weekend, I had triple bypass surgery. It’s been a very difficult year save for the brightness of my marriage to my husband, John, last summer and the continuing love he brings. I wrote a cycle of poems that I thought I was finished with, which I presented at the Rainier Valley Lit Crawl […]
Poetry at Spinnaker Bay, Hillman City
This weekend marks the first time I’ll be reading in public for a year. It also marks the anniversary, of sorts, of my journey with heart disease, triple bypass and recovery. I’ll be reading The Heart Cycle, a series of poems about the experience. It has been an extraordinary year, which culminated in pancreatitis and […]
A Great Article on “Airstreaming”
Rhonda Coleman wrote this great article about my novel several years ago that I just read again. I wanted to share it out. http://www.airstreaming.net/miscellany/airstreaming-author-tom-schabarum/
Tom Schabarum | Writer 