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Have You Seen This?
If I had to teach a quick & dirty lesson on poetic form, I could do worse than to use this awesome Guy Fieri parody”menu” (sent my way by red-hot poet of the moment Becky Hazelton). I would point...
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Upcoming Events
This morning I was on-air for 89.9 WORT Radio–along with the fiercely talented Ellen Seibers and Kara Candito–to promote the WILD AMERICA: A Collaborative Exhibition and Reading event happening at the...
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Updates and a Long Overdue “Thank You”
Is a busboy’s work ever done? A review of American Busboy just went up at the New Orleans Review’s website. Check it out here! *** I’ll be reading this Friday in Iowa City for the Forklift/H_NGM_N...
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Reasons For My Absence
Same cranky chowder cook. Same scratchy-voiced, little Napoleon of an owner bossing about. Same elusive, vaguely seductive, vaguely contemptuous dark-haired waitress giving me the stink eye and those...
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That’s a Wrap
Driftless Review is up & running. Thank you Kara Candito & Victor Castro for bringing this to life! I’m in the inaugural issue with some bad-ass poets, including recent Monsters readers Liz...
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I Love This Poem!
If one measure of aesthetic beauty is symmetry, then Traci Brimall’s monster-movie of a poem “The Last Known Sighting of the Mapinguari” is a smash. I read it this morning–about a half-dozen times out...
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The Reality Check Is In the Mail
Writers will write about writing More than bakers will bake about baking —Matt Cook My wife (supremely patient) and I (supremely not) were having an argument about time—how much of it I need to write...
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Love/Hate
Had lunch with a friend today, a fellow poet, and we talked about what might be called an identity crises that we share: a love/hate relationships with poetry. Some of what I wondered aloud: Do I love...
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Morning Pick-Me-Up…
I’m so excited and honored to be reading in Denton, TX, next Wednesday, November 20 (6:00 pm, Curry Hall, Rm. 203, on the University of North Texas campus) with Jessica Murray and Karl Zuehlke. This...
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A Few Short Poems I Wrote Last WeeK and Some Thoughts on Steven Schroeder’s...
The idea is the outlook, the sense that we have seen with some focus on how and what is… *** I have turned out to be a royal pain. *** “The Straightway Was Lost,” first poem in Steven D. Schroeder’s...
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