I haven’t met Mark Truscott, but I loved his book (why haven’t I posted on that yet?), and now I’m a fan because a/ he as started a new reading…
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Oh, I saw it at BookCourt, my local book store on Court Street! It’s the 4 Volume set of The Complete Works of Samuel Beckett published by Grove and edited…
Snowing in Brooklyn! Caught this moment about a half hour ago when the snow was at its fullest, and seemed to want to linger in the air. Now it has…
I wanted to respond to derek beaulieu’s winnipeg suite (discussed earlier), without too much analysis, primarily because the people whom I dream of encountering poetry are people who don’t necessarily…
Virginia Woolf committed suicide on this day in 1941. Her walking stick, found on the banks of the River Ouse, was sold at auction in 2002, and is now part…
As I write this, Lemon Hound has gone to print! Coach House has done an amazing job! Launch details to come.
Why are some wars good? Because they’re for the right reasons. That one was for the right reasons. This one isn’t. What is this one for? This one is because…
I write to make a statement of presence in language. In order for the alive to win out.Writing can be done only in a body to body encounter with language,…
Apologies for the increasingly random posts. For some reason deadlines seem like magnets for other deadlines which seem like magnets for upstart combustions and implosion of various natures, expenses and…
No, it isn’t strange to follow Wordsworth with Stein, but it is strange to have a “Rat Snake” take to its dinner. At a Tokyo zoo a 9 cm dwarf…
Isn’t this the second woman to win the TS Eliot Poetry Prize? Good lord, what’s happening to us. While I can’t claim to be a fan of Carol Anne Duffy,…
Well, there are memoirs and then there are memoirs… This whole Frey mess might actually be contextualized with the Wiesel memoir. I doubt it, but I’m teaching a research writing…