My first book of poetry, Gray Ocean of Memory, is now available!

This collection dives into the ways our minds reshape the past. Mundane moments blur, distort, and reassemble themselves into something far more intriguing. The book asks: when memory drifts, what new truths wash ashore?

Poet Phillis Levin offered this generous reflection on the book: “Ben’s sanguine nature makes his work quite easy to appreciate, even when it explores difficult terrain. Gray Ocean of Memory swerves into super-realism and surrealism where innocence and freedom are baselines for experiencing the world. As a diamond disappears in water, the speaker of these poems disappears into the medium he inhabits; as a flesh-and-blood human being, he emerges transformed by what he encounters and recalls.”

The online order from my website includes a free download of the audiobook (with some surprises!).