March 6, 2009
Thoughts of a Puppy in the Tillages of Modishness and Doubt
The poet Alice Notley lives in Paris, and I live in St. Louis with a magic English puppy and a basil plant, but last week she reached across the Atlantic […]
March 5, 2009
Making the Text Jump – Part Two
Last week I began spinning out some thoughts on hyperlinking and the compositional process. Here’s some more of the same, pushed a bit further…. A couple of months ago, I […]
February 28, 2009
Short Takes: Digital Rights
It’s a big week for audio rights in the book world. After last week’s op-ed piece in The New York Times by Roy Blount Jr., president of the Authors’ Guild […]
February 27, 2009
All this living in the space between our lives
When I lived on Margaret Street, the sun came in my bedroom window, in fire escape stripes, every late afternoon. From the window you could hear the old woman Anna […]
February 27, 2009
Tray of Refreshments
I’m sick of worrying about my houseplants and my haircut, let’s refresh ourselves. What’s the tastiest poetry reading you ever heard?– a real meal-in-itself or room-perfumer? When poets I love […]
February 25, 2009
2009 Short Fiction Contest
Now is the time! Only 3 days left! No submission fee! Submit now! Richard Ford will judge!
February 24, 2009
Making the Text Jump ??? Part One
I’ve been reading William Styron again. For reasons that I can only claim have nothing to do with personal origins (at least, not entirely ??? honest), I have long wanted […]
February 23, 2009
Fox Love / Squid Love
It’s February, and not yet time for the birds and bees, perhaps (at least not in my neck of the woods here in Northern Vermont, where we just received another […]
February 21, 2009
Be Seeing You
Poets are obsessed with the appalling pleasure of vanishing into their own art. An angel’s starry sleeve once nudged (as it had to) Rilke into powder. Thomas James spoke with […]
February 19, 2009
Laura (Riding) Jackson Goes to Prom
I wanted to call this post “Situated at Universally Public Distance from the Very Private Public Humanness of the Humanly Lived Life of Now,” but then even the two people […]
February 18, 2009
MIA
The publishing world, which has purred along in a dream-like state of ignorant bliss for many years, has been no less affected by today’s global economic tsumani than banks, auto […]
February 18, 2009
The Unseen Efficiencies
I had two loves in my younger days: literature and basketball. Poetry is a finger roll, short stories are games, seasons are novels. Learning the system of one helped me […]