March 31, 2008
In Their Own Voices
I spent the weekend with two poet friends from out of town, one of whom is a gifted mimic and 4th grade teacher. As it often happens, I’m mulling over […]
March 31, 2008
A Footnote on Moral Turpitude
As if the case of Sebastian Horsley couldn’t get stranger. A recent piece (dare we call it opinion or reporting?) in the New York Times (and no wonder they don’t […]
March 31, 2008
Short Takes
The NY Times obituary for Robert Fagles. (File under things you wish your bookshelf could do.) An interview with John Michael Cummings, whose “Marshmellow People” appeared in the Winter 2008 […]
March 29, 2008
Missing/Not Missing
I am visiting New Hampshire for the weekend, and the pile of snow at the end of my parents’ driveway is still about five feet high. No feet high is […]
March 27, 2008
Small Press Notes
Blue Haze | Miyazawa Kenji | Translated by Kenji Okuhira & Gerald Hausman | Green River, VT: Longhouse, 2007 An accordion booklet from Bob and Susan Arnold’s Longhouse Publishers. These […]
March 27, 2008
Of Prostitution, Pens, Paranoia, and Pablum
Until perhaps a week ago I had never heard of Sebastian Horsley. It’s still not clear to me if this is my failing or Horsley’s. Perhaps reading of his “memoir” […]
March 27, 2008
More about Intentions Intending
Inspired by Reginald Shepherd’s excellent article (which Heather Christie refers to in her March 21st post) on intentionality, I shall tell a brief story from my childhood in a small […]
March 25, 2008
Wallace Stegner’s West
Wallace Stegner has been getting a lot of attention recently. About two weeks ago in Point Reyes, CA a Wallace Stegner conference entitled “The Geography of Hope” was held, in […]
March 24, 2008
Another Hemingway Encounter
Kirsten Ogden’s post on A Moveable Feast reminded me of my own encounter with Hemingway. I got through school without having to read him. I don’t know if my experience […]
March 23, 2008
A Moveable Sunday
There’s something beautiful about spending several hours treasure-hunting at a used bookstore on a ‘false spring’ afternoon. In Burbank, California, on a particularly lazy Saturday, I discovered the largest dollar […]
March 21, 2008
Teaching the Machine to Write Poems
There’s this big brouhaha over at the Poetry Foundation about Reginald Shepherd’s post about intentionality, which I will not jump into except to extract this snippet from Michael Robbins, who […]
March 20, 2008
Chapbook Notes
Nerve Bundles | Dan Nielsen & Mark M | Racine, WI: The M Press, 1993 | 24 pgs A collaborative work by Racine, WI poet/artists Dan Nielsen and Mark M. […]