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 […]
April 11, 2016
Cinematic Syntax
I started thinking about poetry and cinema after a visit to artist and filmmaker Karen Yasinsky’s Film & Media Studies class “Poetry and the Moving Image” at Johns Hopkins University. In her […]
November 29, 2011
Mix Tape: Feeling Thankful For…
Poems, when they come, and for Ruth Stone, who once said, “Never keep a poem waiting; it might be a really good one, and if you don’t get it down […]
November 18, 2011
Mix Tape: Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner…
…and nobody shoves Bob Hass around. Have books, will travel! Occupy Wall Street and the need for mobile libraries. Books can go anywhere, and so can poems…so why are so […]
August 3, 2010
The Sewanee Writers’ Conference: Dig Yourself
The 2010 Sewanee Writers’ Conference ended just over a week ago; I’m back in Ann Arbor, having Honda’d my way through Kentucky and Ohio. Still, I have all of these […]
July 20, 2010
The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, at the Midpoint
A few days ago, in his Sewanee Writers’ Conference craft talk, Richard Bausch said, “A writer is a bookish person.” (He also praised the value of exposition — reversing the […]