About Sports, Poetry, Cigars, and Manliness. Monday, April 6, 2009. I miss the high and the insanity. I do not miss the loneliness and the insanity. Once again, it is possible to be a hypocrite, to believe two contradictory ideas. I write this while at Cigar Masters in Boston, a cigar bar where the wait staff is almost completely beautiful young women. I do not wonder why. I am smoking a La Gloria Cubana.

Old Site - Learning Page. Ranging from pictures I have taken, poems I have written, short stories, pottery, drawings, paintings and print making. I am currently studying Print Making at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. All of the work on this site was created by me, David Gray, unless otherwise noted. In which case specific sources are identified and noted.

Diana Der-Hovanessian, New England born poet, was twice a Fulbright professor of American Poetry and is the author of more than 25 books of poetry and translations.

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