June 26, 2016
Clowns: The Week in Review
I’m a fan of short forms: the clerihew, the cartoon caption, the political tweet. As such, I enjoy reading the rating summaries that appear at the end of New York Times movie reviews. […]
June 25, 2016
Memory is Elsewhere
“I want you to tell me a story ‘bout when you were a little boy,” says my four-year-old girl every night. I tell her things I remember, and things I’ve […]
June 21, 2016
The Greatest Decade
The Warriors are not greater than the ’95-’96 Bulls, who still have the best win-loss record of all time when you include the postseason. The Warriors have reached heights that […]
June 20, 2016
Summer in Vermont
Saw a red and white hot air balloon floating over Winooski on my run by the river this morning. Crossed the footbridge and greeted a woman with one of those […]
June 19, 2016
We Encounter Each Other So Rarely
My ankles brush the sage and scrub, and I can no longer recall my mother’s hands, and soon my name too, is lost among the humming- birds, among the blur […]
June 15, 2016
On Watching: Eco-Poetry and Desire in “The Beekeeper’s Daughter”
by Karen Malpede I sit in the back of the theater; that way I can watch the audience watching the play I have written and directed. I can monitor […]
June 14, 2016
Now Fill the World with Pride
On the night of Saturday, June 11, I went to bed and proceeded to have a lengthy, vivid stress dream in which I was involved in a mass shooting. As […]
June 10, 2016
First Person Plural: Part III (Muhammad Ali)
Throughout my last two posts, I’ve been thinking about strength (and complication) in numbers—the first person plural: “We.” In between those posts and this one, the news broke that boxer […]
June 6, 2016
The Data Mine of Rap
The Raplyzer is a computer program that automatically analyzes rhymes from rap lyrics and ranks rappers according to their Rhyme Factor. Created by Eric Malmi, a doctoral student in Computer […]
May 30, 2016
Peace is a Bus that Has No Destination
…for history has yet to start and there’s no geography and no other languages. And even better: the war has left its “r” behind and turned into love, so the […]
May 29, 2016
Know your state poet laureate: Michael Earl Craig, Montana
I was alerted to the fact that Michael Earl Craig was the current Montana Poet Laureate via a Facebook post by the (great) poet Christopher DeWeese (check out his illuminating […]
May 28, 2016
A Good Immunity is Everything
There might be only us In a room My love and I But that is fine What eyes are left for me Anyway what other eyes are left […]