He has written many short poems, as well as longer verse narratives, including: ''Sons of Newtown'', about gay male life in the Chicago neighborhood - AKA Lakeview or Boystown - for which NewTown Writers was named; ''The Poem of Sylvain'', set in medieval Normandy; ''Gay Don Juan'', about the so-called womanizer of seventeenth-century Spain; and ''Prime'', about a different gay male generation in New Town.is