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Frozen Words, Nicole Dextras, Winter 2007. Stay cool this weekend. These words were made out of ice and set out in the landscape and left to melt. The largest project was...

To Our Latina/o Readers, First of all, my apologies that this piece offended you. It was not intended to. Rather, it was meant to bring some of the simmering comments up...

You are reading these words because your machine is reading code. The code instructs the machine how to respond to the clicks and keyboard strokes that you make in response...

It is at once humbling, startling, and puzzling. Every so often, I have to do a cleaning out of my office. This means going into files spilling with slips of...

Soy un poeta estadounidense, y como el resto de mis compatriotas, hablo sólo un idioma. Cuando me pidieron que escribiera para Harriet, el blog del Poetry Foundation, supuse que lo...

Click to enlarge This unbelievable full-page MasterCard ad ran in last Wednesday's NYTimes. Left to right: Jack Smith, (unidentified man), Harry Smith, Panna Grady, William S. Burroughs, Andy Warhol; NYC, winter...

Many years ago, while embarked on the ambitious task of defining myself as a writer, I actually came up with a motto—a kind of coda that I crafted into a...

Friday night there was a big party for my mother to celebrate her 40 years of service to the city. People told stories and offered reflections about my mom...

In a review of my book "Teahouse of the Almighty" in the Summer/Fall 2007 issue of Gulf Coast, in the best review I've ever received of anything I've ever written,...

On the train ride from Munich to Berlin, (6 hour ride). Matthea Harvey, Ron Winkler and I (along with some help from Kevin Young and Uljana Wolf intermittenly) discuss a...