"This (sonnet 'Defining Moment') so poignantly dispels the troubles some of us have with the concept of God, especially with goofy religious childhoods to reconcile. I need to share this with a couple of my friends. Thank you."

"Your poems (of recovery) are sustaining gifts. Thank you."

"I never heard my personal heartache described as perfectly as 'When I Refuse to Pray', just to name one of the poems you shared that described my innermost struggles. I read almost all of your words in a mutual sense of shock and relief. Shock that your words so perfectly match my most inner and private feelings and demons . . . and then relief that I am not alone."

"Roger A. writes poetry of often breathtaking power, sometimes on matters relating to addiction and recovery about which he knows a thing or two."