Trivia, 21-40.

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21. "Amo te" or "te amo" is Latin for "I love you". "Amote" is a contraction meaning "to speak of love". An "Amotation" is a love poem or love letter.
22. "Amomancer" was originally a character in an poem in the eighties, an itinerant speaker of words of love, like a minstrel or even a court jester. The term was first applied to the poet by Emotions Magazine publisher, Lupi Basil.
23. Only Psyche, Aurora, Arachne and Brigit are mythological figures he adapted as totem muses. The first three are sisters, in real life.
24. Although sometimes he avoids capitalizing the first letter of a sentence, he always capitalizes the word "I".
25. The muse known as Psyche is also the Electric Lady and the original Nemicorn. "Bright Nemicorn" is a phrase he uses for a potential muse. Nemicorn is a word he contracted from "neminem" and "unicorn"...it means someone or something you love so much they take on mythic aspect, or a black unicorn with a glass horn.
26. The sobriquet "Romantic Poet of the Internet" was given to him by Yahoo in September of 1996.
27. "Cat" is almost always an insult in one of his poems.
28. The poem he wrote for the Edinburgh International Internet Festival of the Arts, "a phoenix, colding", was a tribute to his friend Pete Rosa, who had worked with him in the original Writers Club on AOL and helped him plan and execute the New York Writers Party in 1995.
29. His first romantic poem, "I speak her name in softest voice" was an Elizabethan sonnet.
30. At his first "real" public reading, at a coffeehouse, he stopped the reading to upbraid the audience for "insincere applause".
31. On his 47th birthday he gave away books to an entire coffeehouse crowd gathered for his reading in Pacific Grove, California.
32. In the entirety of the Panther Cycles he uses the Panther's real name. Once.
33. He was the first poet published by Writers Club Press.
34. His most common historical reference is to the Rubicon, the river Caesar crossed in defiance of the Roman Senate.
35. He has written three poems about his father. One about his mother. Have a field day, Freud.
36. When he read from his Panther Cycles at the Algonquin Writers Party, he modified the words in one line, as the Panther was in the audience, undetected by the other writers there.
37. His longest poem, Diogenes, is 400 lines long.
38. The volume THE COMPLEAT PANTHER CYCLES runs 68,320 words. Novel length, you bet.
39. INVOCATO was originally conceived to be the first of a trilogy of books entitled INVOCATO, CORONATO and TERMINATO.
40. The poem "The Nosferatu's Dream" deals with his fear of insanity.

In the next installment I'll tell you a few things about his works outside of his poetry, including the most disastrously inaccurate pre-movie review ever spoken.