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Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I sent a pre-election sonnet of sorts to my friend Matt Hart.  He then did a most excellent Ted Berrigan on it. So here you have it, before and after.  Yay America!  Obamanos!
 
It Was Cold in the Country I Remember
November 3, 2008
 
The children imagine a fire in the yard.
They’re not yet old enough to [...]

Two New Reviews!

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Big thanks to Steve Burt and Dale Smith for their thoughtful reading of and generous words about my book in The Believer and Bookslut.  Wow. 

Blanton Poetry Project Webpage

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Much thanks to Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art for featuring my poem The First Ship on their website If These Walls Could Speak.   There is a short interview about the making of the poem and, if you enlarge the painting, a recording of me reading it.  A big shout out to Kurt Heinzelman and D’Arcy Randall for all of their [...]

Second Friday Reading at Gemini Ink

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

The end of the semester and the hangover from National Poetry Month have me feeling all William Carlos Williamsish,
                    ”Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
                    dazed spring approaches—”
And heck, since spring last all of three day around here, I should probably [...]

AGNI

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

New poem up at AGNI.

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