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To clarify: I’ve never suffered from it. I don’t mean this as a boast. I’m simply saying that I’ve been too busy writing to not be able to write. I’m...

We are currently in West Chester, Pennsylvania, but we have been travelling over the last week through Kentucky and Indiana, enjoying the exotic particulars of place names. We keep...

Fall moving into Boston, and along with the up-and-down ALCS, which has more or less mesmerized our household-- game six is tonight!-- we've had a series of misty days: the...

A is for apple. B is for butterflies. H is for housesparrow, hedgesparrow. H is for hen. C is for cat. H is for hedge, hedgehog, horsetail, hawthorn, heather, hemlock, holly, hellebore and hazel. H is...

Paisley Rekdal, who has written some neat poems herself, says it's a bad idea to drink five bottles of wine a week, and certainly I wouldn't try it. (I prefer...

----------------- Language is a virus from outer space. Language is a pursuer of covert aims. Language frames our virus as poetic. Language tapers our vicious frames. Language for a sum is a corrupt sieve. Language for us promises a curative. ----------------- Eveline Kolijn (a respected printmaker in Calgary) asked me...

We've left Chicago, and are now in Georgetown KY, located in the rolling hills and white fences of horse country. This is also bourbon country, though we discovered (on...

As the second winner of The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize hits the bookstore shelves (future shout out, y’all) I am reminded of one of Montoya’s early champions, poet Lee Herrick,...

At birth, before the umbilical was cut, Ralph Steadman pooped in the hand of the hospital nurse. This marked, according to Steadman, the “earliest manifestation of a Gonzotic event.” He...

John Keats wrote 64 sonnets, some very famous and rightly admired all over the wide world, and some that wouldn't get, nor deserve, much attention, had their author not been...