book covers [mouse over to see bigger]


All Screwed Up
Benu Press
Mobile/photo by Claudia Carlson
Winner of Silver IPPY design award in 2010.


Blind Date With Cavafy
Marsh Hawk Press
I took the photo in Red Hook, Brooklyn and
drew new coffee cup artwork of men holding hands in adobe illustrator.


At The End of The Day: Selected Poems and
an Introductory Essay
Marsh Hawk Press


Russian Tortoise
Images courtesy of the Library of Congress.


Striking Surfaces
Jason Schneiderman sent me this image
I created a box pattern to set off a
font that played well with the art.


A Circle of Friends: Remembering Madeleine L'Engle
I also have an essay in the collection.


The Elephant House
Marsh Hawk Press
Yes, lucky enough to design my own, photo taken in Strauss Park.


Night Lights
Marsh Hawk Press
Watercolor by Augustine.


The Light Sang As It Left Your Eyes
Marsh Hawk Press
I wanted to reflect the author's multifaceted homage
to her father so gave the photos a Warhole poster look.


The Animal Within A small press novel.


The Ghost Factory
Marsh Hawk Press


Forty-Nine Guareenteed Ways to Escape Death
Marsh Hawk Press
I took the photos & manipulated them in phtoshop.


Bridges in the Mind
Benu Press

Almost Dorothy
Marsh Hawk Press


High Notes
Benu Press
High Notes in the category of General Trade/Poetry,
has won an award in the 2011 New York Book Show.


Peace Conference
Marsh Hawk Press
Cover art by the author.


In Ways Impossible to Fold
Marsh Hawk Press
Cover art by Shaun Tan.


Breaking the Fever
Marsh Hawk Press


Eminent Domain
Marsh Hawk Press
I created a layered effect with the dramatic falling figures drawn by Manny Prieres.


The Same
Journal edited by Martin Mitchell, photos of Cristo's
installation in Central Park by Claudia Carlson.


Alimentum: The Literature of Food
I co-design journal, inside and out with Peter Selgin.
My design with Peter Selgin for Alimentum: The Literature of Food won a best in category award for General Trade Quality Paperback design at the 2008 and 2009 New York Book Shows.


Unused cover concept.


Derek Walcott Three Plays Meeting Walcott and hearing he really liked
the cover, a great moment.
Farrar Straus & Giroux


Almost Dorothy
Marsh Hawk Press
Art supplied by author.


The Poets' Grimm
an anthology I helped edit. My design.


