March 9, 2017
Poetry in Public: Or, Why I Leave the House
I recently returned to the Amy Clampitt House, where I’m in residence through June, after a multi-leg trip to Baltimore and Louisville. In Baltimore, I was reading for the Enoch […]
October 23, 2015
Gwendolyn Brooks & a Poetry of Collective Self
One of the best-known poems in the first-person plural is probably “We Real Cool,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, which first appeared in Poetry in September 1959, and was then published in her 1960 […]
May 26, 2015
Soundings: Poetry and Process
Sounding: the action or process of measuring the depth of the sea or other body of water. Sounding: information or evidence ascertained as a preliminary step before deciding on a […]
November 18, 2011
The Breath Within Our Breath (On Poetry Readings)
Yesterday, as usual, my Facebook newsfeed was crowned with the day’s birthday exchanges and Facebook’s reminders to add my wishes to the walls of three or four friends. But just […]
September 22, 2011
Mix Tape: Genius (Comedy and Otherwise)
Ok, so you’re not a genius. Let that sink in for a minute. Now shake it off and enjoy reading about people who are. A laugh-out-loud funny look at the […]