Another Poem to Love

I've got poems running all this week at No Tell Motel, as I mentioned a couple of days ago, but they look nothing like the ones from A Witness in Exile. And I don't know if they'll end up looking like anything I do from here on out. But I want to talk a little … Continue reading The other poetry project

if you're in the Fort Lauderdale area at least. Amy's in this show--it's her first--and when we dropped her piece off yesterday, we got to see some of the stuff that's already installed, and it's really cool. Without giving too much away, one piece is modeled on the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte … Continue reading Here’s what you’re doing on Saturday

So not only do I have a book out a week ago today, and new poems up all this week at No Tell Motel, but I'm also the new Potty Mouth interview at Almost Dorothy (and I took that categorization to heart, let me tell you). And I've gotten a couple more interview requests just … Continue reading Blowing Up Big Time Around Here

Or at least, for me, the next thing. Or the intermediate thing. It's a little confusing. Since my book came out, people who are reading it will have a particular idea of what my poems are like. But some of those poems are six or seven years old. They're still representative of me as a … Continue reading And now for something completely different

This is a good example of the kind of musical acts we get here in south Florida. That's an image from the Ticketmaster email I got last night. Now I will cop to having had (and probably still having, to some extent) a Stevie Nicks crush starting back when I was, oh, 9 or so. … Continue reading Which is which?

Matt L. Rohrer over at We Who Are About To Die invited some people to to write about books which mean a lot to them--not the stories/poems/images in the books, but the books themselves. The idea is "if you borrow this book, you have to return it." Well, the book I'm going to write about … Continue reading If you borrow this book…

Yes, I changed my shirt before taking that photo. 🙂 It's here, A Witness in Exile, with a beautiful book and cover design by Amy Letter, an incredible cover image by Judith Berk King, all done by an awesome press at LaLit run by Jack Bedell. You can get copies directly from me, and soon, … Continue reading Guess What Showed Up Today?

For the Thanksgiving holiday of 2003, Amy and I planned a trip to her brother's house in northern New Mexico for the holidays. Actually, Amy planned the trip--she's far more adventurous than I am and likes finding new ways to get to places she's been to before--and in this case, she discovered US Route 50 … Continue reading Some People Just Suck

You decide. This is Owlsley, the Fighting Burrow Owl of Our Fair University. And this is Brak, star of the Brak Show and Space Ghost Coast to Coast among others. Hmmmm.

I've had this bumping around in my head for the last few days, ever since Anis Shivani posted his list of "the 17 Most Important Poetry Books of Fall 2010." That post is what I had in mind when I referred to pomposity in my last post. Seriously? The most important books of a season? … Continue reading About those end of the year lists