August 28, 2019
Prompt Me
On my writing desk sits a glass jar filled with folded slips of paper, each strip bearing a phrase taken from a poem that’s meant to serve as writing inspiration. […]
June 30, 2017
Where I Get My Ideas
From readings, where I scrawl notes in tiny, messy handwriting on the backs of old receipts I’ve dug up from the bottom of my bag. From weddings, especially if something […]
July 22, 2014
Goodnight Reuben Bright
Sunday’s Times was chockablock with poetry. Daisy Fried lit fireworks for Dan Chiasson’s Bicentennial; Stephen Burt quoted liberally (and salaciously, by Gray Lady standards) from Patricia Lockwood’s Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. […]