September 11, 2018
Luck, Lit, & Gutter Spouts
I was twenty-three years old when I won the Hopwood Award for Poetry. A recent college grad, I lived in a leaky apartment that I’d furnished with lawn furniture and […]
August 26, 2016
Is Grief a Waiting
You hear the strange cricket in the oven sing, and ask what it sings. This is what it sings. —Frank Bidart, “The Third Hour of the Night” […]
December 12, 2012
The Lessons of Objects: An Interview with Mark Doty
More than anything, Mark Doty seems to me an investigator of objects—of the things and beings that clutter the world, the microcosms inside microcosms inside our macrocosm. In his work […]
April 20, 2012
Craft Note: Duet—Part Two (Ending With A Post By Tarfia Faizullah Ending With A Line By Vallejo)
The poem that begins with a borrowed line begins spending its inheritance right away. It feels free, cavalier, perhaps even prodigal at times. It seems to thrive on its own […]
March 12, 2012
Dance the Poem: or, Discoveries from AWP
What does a poem have to say to a dance? What does dance, which most often says nothing, have to do with poetry? Please tell me it’s not just that […]