Tag: Writing

Cold Mountain Review Selects “Speech Therapy”

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 […]

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

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/  

Published Poems from See America

I’m very happy to report that two poems from my 16 poem suite, See America, have been published very recently. The Final Drive, Seattle 2015 was published in the Fall/Winter issue of Crab Creek Review. Check our their website here: http://www.crabcreekreview.org West Hollywood to Pasadena, CA, 1998 was published in the Pontoon section of Floating Bridge […]