March 30, 2016
Umm, Colonoscopy, Part 1
When it’s late January and you’re fifty and sitting sort of slouched in your black underpants on the rolled-out white paper that protects the exam table from whatever you might […]
September 30, 2014
The Breaking of Jimbo: Some Thoughts on the Kathy Fagan poem “Road Memorial.” Part 2
In Part 1, I dreamed an account of events that would culminate in the arrival to my intro creative writing class of the poet Kathy Fagan. Part 1 itself ended with […]
September 28, 2014
The Breaking of Jimbo: Some Thoughts on the Kathy Fagan poem “Road Memorial.” Part 1.
Early this morning, a few minutes before the alarm went off, or maybe a few more than a few, I started writing this post. I was dreaming the writing, which […]
September 6, 2012
Mix Tape: Inventors, Masters, Starters of Crazes
Will the old writing you’ve disowned—the poems full of mixed metaphors, the stories you never knew how to end, the essays that seem to fall flat—follow you around forever? And, […]