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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
New poem up at AGNI.
