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, […]

New poem up at AGNI.

I’m looking forward to seeing many friends at Brazos Bookstore in Hosuton this Friday where I’ll be reading from The Second Reason at 6pm.  Brazos Bookstore2421 BissonnetHouston Texas 77005www.brazosbookstore.com  Please come see Kent Shaw and yours truly read from our new books, Calenture and The Second Reason this Friday at 6pm. Brazos Bookstore Friday, April 18, 6:00 pm […]

Thanks to Roberto Bonazzi for this generous review in Sunday’s San Antonio Express News. 

San Antonio is hopping with poetry this month!  The Office of Cultural Affairs has a complete calendar of events.  Poems about birds, poems and vegetarian food, haiku hikes and free copies of The Wasteland.  What’s not to love? Check it out. And, if you are in Austin this weekend, also check out The Blanton Museum’s Poetry […]

Don’t miss the Artists for Obama gathering this Thursday, 2/28 from 6-8 pm at Ruta Maya!  Where else can you get organic coffee and good beer and have part of the cost donated to the Obama campaign? Nowhere. Where else can you get Cruz Ortiz to silkscreen your T-shirt with an original Obama graphic for $5?  Nowhere. Where else can you […]