This Volumes Of Me #3: Going Public represents my third year of writing and saving poetry, 1991. Where I wrote longer poems in my first year I began to write shorter, more succinct poems this year. The "Going Public" of the subtitle for this year reflects the fact that I found a public forum to share my poetry.

Selected poems gathered from random wanders around this and adjacent words.

Poetry Jazz from notes made at a Tommy Flanagan concert in the mid-nineties.

Life is a series of moments before death. How you use them all defines you. Find herein some suggestions. This expanded (oldering) edition represents changes of two decades as well as life lessons leaned in over 6 decades.

This Cats All Around represents many of my poems concerning or about cats or catlike worlds of people. You don't have to be a cat lover to enjoy these poems, but it could help on some of them. I love cats, especially kittens, but think they are better off outdoors; even if you are an indoors cat person you should find something in here to fancy your tickle.

The Civil Rights Revolution carries Bruce Ackerman's sweeping reinterpretation of constitutional history into the era beginning with Brown v Board of Education. Laws that ended Jim Crow and ensured equal rights at work, in schools, and in the voting booth gained congressional approval only after the American people mobilized their support.

Though plagued by illness and death in his family in the years covered here, Garrison strove to win supporters for abolitionism, lecturing and touring with Frederick Douglass. He continued to write for The Liberator and involved himself in many liberal causes; in 1849 he publicized and circulated the earliest petition for women's suffrage.