I retired after 35 years in the Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections of Princeton University Library, where I was head of manuscripts processing and then, for the last 15 years, curator of historic maps. I've written a number of works on cartography, including Strait Through: Magellan to Cook and the Pacific; First X, Then Y, Now Z: An Introduction to Landmark Thematic Maps; and Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888. These have extensive website versions. I've been writing poems for most of my life, and, in the 1970s, attended the Writing Program of Syracuse University, where my mentors were poets W. D. Snodgrass and Philip Booth. In subtle ways, they have bookended my approach to poems. In 2017, I published Waypoints, a collection of place poems. Twenty Questions, a chapbook, appeared in 2019, and Delicate Arch: Poems and Photographs of National Parks and Monuments was published in 2022. A trip to the Galápagos archipelago with my son Andrew in 2021 resulted in the chapbook Galápagos (2023), consisting of his color photographs and my poetic responses, and Nile, a chapbook of poems and photographs about Egypt, appeared in 2024.  I have traveled widely, preferring remote, natural settings, and make my home in Port Townsend, WA.

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