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On the third day of a week-long tour through Germany with poets Kevin Young, Christian Hawkey, and Matthea Harvey. Matthea's husband (and editor of Jubilat) Rob Caspar is also...

Except I can’t. The problem is technical: hands. The baby must be held. In the sling he falls asleep and I eat and try to sleep make...

Everybody's sayin' it: "PhDs are the new MFAs." Say it ain't so. I'm out of money. Anybody out there got a PhD in creative writing? Why? Is it sexier? Do you...

I have a friend named Rachel Kann. Her new book, "10 for Everything" is fresh off the press; I got my copy in the mail today. Turn the book over...

On April 10, Patricia wrote: "Phebus Etienne is dead. That won't mean anything to most of you...Phebus was a reverent Haitian lyric, a deft conjurer of language and light,...

I just arrived in Berlin. I will be blogging from Germany for the next week. I am embarking on a three-city tour with three other American poets, Matthea Harvey, Kevin...

In June 1961, my father was in the Soviet Union on a tour. He took the time to write a daily journal. On June 16th, he wrote: …My birthday. ...

This post is building off the discussion on Emily’s thread. I lived in Los Angeles from 1996 to 2003, and there was a lot happening there with Latino writers too. (LA...

I’m thinking about Rachel’s recent post and the intersection between experience and art. Some of the most powerful poems I know seem to be, if not drenched in, then at...

A commenter on Silliman's blog asked the following question: "Just curious Ron, but are any of your SoQ [School of Quietitude] poets happy to be tagged with this label now, today?...