People keep asking me “what did you do with all that literature education & poem stuff” … well, I wrote a bunch of poems. I still write them now and then, but haven’t been terribly focused on it for a good while. I used to have some of the ones I’ve published up on the […]

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Jeffrey Skinner, my mentor from what seems a previous life, recently published a new book of poems: Salt Water Amnesia (published by Ausable Press, and also available on Amazon.)
I realize it came out in September, but it’s still “recent” by poetry publishing standards.
I’m awaiting arrival of the book to my mailbox, but I’ve read […]

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There’s a glowing paean over on AlterNet (via Common Ground) on ‘Howl’ at Fifty, about Allen Ginsberg’s first public reading of his seminal poem.
The article says he “brought American poetry back to life,” but I’d have to disagree. The Beats certainly helped things along, but American poetry was doing quite well already, thank you. […]

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Poet Sharon Olds wrote back to the White House (to Laura Bush) her reasons for not attending the National Book Festival as a featured writer & speaker. It’s reprinted at The Nation. The quotation below is something she leads up to, and doesn’t just come right out and say in the beginning. In fact, the […]

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I’d like to point out this first-rate publication: Stirring : A Literary Collection
My endorsement may or may not have anything to do with anything published in this month’s edition.
(The poem is from about 9 years ago, but I’d never sent it anywhere. It’s really strange to see it in print now, in different […]

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This week in The New Yorker, Anthony Lane reviews the movie “Yes” in iambic pentameter, with rhymed couplets.

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Louise Gluck is our new poet laureate in the US… I’ve had the pleasure of meeting her a couple of times. Intense, deep woman. Amazing amazing poet. Louise Gl¸ck - The Academy of American Poets

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I haven’t sent out any work in years. Even though during grad school I managed to publish in a number of decent journals, I grew weary of the process, and too anxious about writing to write.
I ended up with a backlog of work that I’d never sent anywhere, and here I am six years later, […]

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I never post anything about poetry, even though it was at one time my career, of a sort. So, since April is “National Poetry Month” (which is funny as hell, since TS Eliot dissed it so bad by calling it the ‘cruellest’), I figure I’ll reiterate the loveliness of Poetry Daily, a new poem every […]

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