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Finished with 3rd MFA residency. Incredibly tired. Just back from lobster bake thingie where no lobsters were visibly baked. Ten days in creative nirvana. Maine cooperated, kinda (rain). Shunned TV...

The best book-publishing story of the year is from Open City in New York. This Gallimard-inspired, thin blue volume, Long Live a Hunger to Feed Each Other, is a posthumous collection...

Apart from the Psalms, there is only one other biblical book that seems wholeheartedly and unequivocally devoted to the art of poetry. Of course, virtually all the minor prophets make...

Ara Shirinyan "Resolution: I Promise to Write Better Poetry" [PDF, 5.2 mb]

Lord Whimsy's favorite shoes. So precious. Limited to indoor use. Ange, I'm going to not only agree with you, but trump you one and say that it's not only temperament which...

My sons' pediatrician is keenly interested in temperament. Observing my chest-beating, bellowing, early-walker of a one-year-old this morning, he suggested a book that might help me negotiate the difference in...

How much would you pay for a first-edition, one-of-500, Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot of your very own? $20,000! What a deal!! Hurry up please it's time to buy...

Two blogs back, I wrote about Nikky Finney's poem, "The Afterbirth, 1931", but what I did not do is quote much from the poem and so I fear I deprived...

I have always scribbled notes in collections of poems while I am reading them. A curious entertainment for me is to return to books and see what I thought about...

Cynthia Rowley store in Easthampton, 2005. Just imagine my delight when I stumbled by. In one of the most forbiddingly high-rent places in the nation, someone decided to display a...