WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE!
Hi, I’m Ron Percuoco and I’d like to welcome you to my website. I hope your reading this is the beginning of a long and meaningful relationship with you, the reader. If you are like many readers, you have shied away from poetry because it is too flowery or too difficult to understand. In fact, […]
THE SUN BURNED BRIGHT AND HOT
The Sun Burned Bright and Hot is not only the title of my book, but also the title of the first poem you will read. The poem has two main characters: (1) The Chumash Indian sun god Kaqunupenawa and (2) the island, Queen Anacapa. This is the story of the sun god’s quest to find […]
The Poetic Voice
One of the first decisions a poet must make is what person or voice to write his poem in. The first person “I” has many purposes. It can be used to tell people about yourself or about an experience that you had. The poem can be confess- ional like a diary that you may or […]
On Modern Poetry
RHYME For most of recorded history, poetry has rhymed. Whether at the end of a line or within the same line, poems used to have the same sounds in some sort of recurring pattern. It was considered a sign of good craftsmanship. This also helped people remember the poem or song during the long centuries […]
My Book of Poetry
I am very happy to announce that this fall my first book of poetry will be coming out. The title is The Sun Burned Bright and Hot. It will have 30 poems in English–6 poems in French–4 prayers–10 essays and a short story. The thirty poems in English will be divided evenly between light and […]
