Poetry

A collection of poems exploring themes of memory, family, and the moments that define us.

1967

A Letter to Myself
Theatre

1985

Directing
Theatre
Auditioning "Shrew"
Theatre Shakespeare plays

1993

Cabin Fever
Metaphor

2000

I Can't Imagine Being Dead
Meditations

2001

As If Perpetual
Abstract
Tradition
Theatre
Bert
Aging age religion
Deaths and Life
Death

2002

Mobile Home
Philosophy architecture art
Ground Beans
Metaphor War
By Myself Alone
Family Aging life
Contained Time
Time
Dirty Word
War
Connections
Aging Family
Thornton Wilder
Theatre By The Skin Of Our Teeth Casie

2003

My Brother's Dead Weight
Family War
His Last Easter
Family Bert church
The Visit
Aging Death death
Canceled
Theatre
The Light in a New Season
Family family flowers
All in the Timing
Aging

2004

Payback
Family mother family
The Newly Found Dead Brother's Picture Book
Family Meditations
Forgotten Birthdays
Family
International Sweetness
Meditations On the Road automobiles
Mortality Has Its Disadvantages
Philosophy Alfa Romero cars
Faith Based
War
Swamped
Philosophy War family
Dogs and the Cold Snap
Family Meditations War
Getting Some Culture
Billboard Time art
Busted
Time authority Christmas
Historical Perspective
History politics religion

2005

Dreams of Competence
Aging Little Poems
Charged with Concert Glory and Fear
Meditations
Boxes of Childhood at the Curb
Family college growing-up
Electric Forest
Abstract
Eureka
Little Poems
Eclectic Coffee Mugs
Meditations
Barry walked up today,
Little Poems neighbor dark humor
Wind
Places Little Poems cats
Now What Do I Do?
Time age family gathering
Wars and My Father
Family War death
Bad News Bears
Film film movies
The Sunday Trains
Places Little Poems students
So Ten Minutes Ago
Meditations Time coffee
Juxtapositions
Billboard Family Time
A Visit With Nicole
Billboard Family Time
The New Mexico Trip
On the Road Places architecture
Celery and Peanut Butter
Little Poems 1940s 1949

2006

Children
Family age Aquarium of the Pacific
The Talking Wooden Frog
Meditations Little Poems toad
A Dead Day

2007

Eugene O'Neill Looms Large
Billboard Theatre biography

2009

Lost Phone
Little Poems cellphones
The Universal Cellphone Bulge
Education auditions Casie
You Like Christmas Songs; You Sing Them All Year Long
Billboard Family Time

2010

Dreams of My Childhood
Family Time Bert
Breakfast in the Past
Education food memory

2011

A Dream of Jack

2012

Irony
Places Little Poems bird
Memories Born of Music
Family driving Neil Diamond
The Bull's Out!
Places bull bull pen
Sprung From The Old Song
Family Bob Dylan children
Asleep with my eyes open
Billboard Meditations consciousness
Jack's Orange Jacket
Working
Sue Could Be a Lion Tamer
In the Eighties I Took Eight High School Kids to New York to See a Production of Les Miserables

2022

Charles Slater 1932-2022