Well, aside from writing poetry, essays and fiction shorts and making art with a degree in commercial arts, I hale from an entertainment family. One in particular was my father. He was a man of many hats. Clown, ultra-high athlete, vaudeville performer. Mother was a poet, beautician aka former magician assistant in the USO where she met Dad. I…Read More

Good day to you, poets. I’m Benny Scraps. The name was inspired by Paul McCartney’s alter ego name “Billy Shears”. (Benny Scraps…Billy Shears…sounds like a bunch of “BS” either way, right?) Calling myself “Benjamin” Scraps as a form of self-deprecation. My writing is always poetry (no good at prose…tends to read more like a sports article…Read More