Robert J. Howe
Robert J. Howe has published short fiction in Salon, Flatbush Review, Bewildering Stories, the magazines Analog and Black Gate, and the anthologies Newer York and Happily Ever After. His poetry has appeared in 50 Haiku, Punch Drunk Press, Serving House Journal, and The Loch Raven Review, and he has poems forthcoming in The Dawntreader and Main Street Rag. Howe is a native Brooklynite, and former coastguardsman and merchant seaman. Among his most important influences is the standup comedy of Søren Kierkegaard. (Photograph by Eleanor Lang.)
The Cartographer of Dreamland
Even in a bleak Brooklyn childhood, adventure and salvation lie just a vacant lot away.
