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Sunday, August 28 at 1 PM Central, 11 Pacific: Reading for Glass Lyre Press. Zoom link here.
August 8-12, 2022: I will be teaching an adult poetry workshop at Write On, Door County, in Wisconsin. More information here.
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Regarding the Line
Excerpts of this piece appeared in the “Cataloging the Line” edition of Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. It contains some thoughts about lineation and what I often describe as “the tension of the sentence against the line.” … Continue reading
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Tagged #best american poetry 2020, #line in poetry, #poetic line, "cataloging the line"
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“Subway Elegy” in Beloit Poetry Journal
This is a wonderful issue of Beloit Poetry Journal and it’s an honor to be in it! The poem appears on Verse Daily today. I actually have two poems titled “Subway Elegy” in my current book manuscript. This is (at … Continue reading
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On Lea Feinstein’s PAGES, in The Curator
Really delighted to have another art piece in The Curator: “Lea Feinstein’s PAGES,” about the extraordinary text-based works Lea Feinstein has been making. It was a great joy to go to her studio one afternoon this past February to watch … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Lea Feinstein, text-based art, Tyvek painting
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“From the Lost Notebook: 11 & 13” in Tupelo Quarterly
In issue #27 of Tupelo Quarterly, two more “From the Lost Notebook” poems: “From the Lost Notebook 11 (Central Old French” and “From the Lost Notebook 13 (seeing at nanoscale).” This striking cover image of a raven perched at the … Continue reading
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Tagged anna kaye, lost notebook, nan cohen, nanoscale poem, space station poem, tupelo quarterly
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New poems in Terrain.org and The Night Heron Barks
Just catching up on some recently published poems. It’s my first appearance in both of these outlets, and I’m really delighted by both of them, having admired each for a long time: “Meteor Crater,” “Cabin,” and “Feel” in Terrain.org. This … Continue reading
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Tagged cabin, feel, meteor crater
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“Overheard: ‘We are all God’s poems'”
Written in response to an anthology prompt, this poem appears on the first day of National Poetry Month in EcoTheo Review: “Overheard: ‘We are all God’s poems’”
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Essay on the new translation of Bambi, in Electric Literature
Jack Zipes’s new translation, which came out this week, emphasizes Felix Salten’s 1923 novel’s evocation of the plight of European Jews. (The Nazis banned the novel in 1936 as a “political allegory.”) I was fascinated to reread the novel through … Continue reading
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Thousand-Year-Old-Words
My chapbook Thousand-Year-Old Words is out now from Glass Lyre Press. You can order it from their website, from Bookshop.org, or obtain a signed copy by sending me a message using the Contact link above.
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“To Feel Something That Was Not Of Our World” in The Curator
An essay about Nina Katchadourian’s extraordinary exhibition To Feel Something That Was Not Of Our World.
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“The Partitive Case” in DMQ Review
This amazing image by Margeaux Walter accompanies “The Partitive Case” in the prose poem issue of DMQ Review.
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