New York writer Philip Herter has his poetry and writings regularly published in periodicals around the United States. His writings are ironic and powerful with an intelligent keen eye on our daily behaviors. His works may take you on a tour to our normalcy, our daily boredom while he extracts from these some bizarre interpretations of our insignificant routine moments. Time may sped up or slow down. The excitement of grass growing becomes an event in Herter's work, coupled with his direct attack on the futility of our lives. These poems are humorous and spiteful to the nerves of those who think they've figured out the path in their life.
Herter presented us with a this portion of his exciting works entitled "Seven Lucky Poems".

Philip Herter’s poetry and prose has appeared in The Alternative Press, The Baltimore Sun, The Exquisite Corpse, and Gusto, among other publications. His fictions have been anthologized in Thus Spake the Corpse vols. I and II, (Black Sparrow Press).

            He is author of the poetry collections When Poets Ruled the Earth (City Press) Two Rooms and a Dog and The Disputations (Cry for Help Publications) and he has also written several novels, among which are Baby Farm Circus, Felix Easter, The Uptake, Rivers of Tabasco, and most recently, Spend the Sun, about the life and death of Hart Crane, America’s greatest romantic poet. 

            His play Pursued by Happiness enjoyed a run off-Broadway at the Ohio Theater.

            His column Foreign Correspondence is featured monthly in the St. Petersburg Times and other papers around the United States.

            The poems reprinted here are from the collections Two Rooms and a Dog and The Disputations.