When I was eight years old, my brother Mark, then four and a half, followed me everywhere. We had a game where I would stand inside the yard of the play-house in the corner of our living room, and he would open the mailbox, and peer inside, shout […]
When I was eight years old, my brother Mark, then four and a half, followed me everywhere. We had a game where I would stand inside the yard of the play-house in the corner of our living room, and he would open the mailbox, and peer inside, shout […]
One of the most daunting challenges that confronts every struggling and submitting poet is the demand for "previously unpublished" poems. We have grown used to it by now, and most of us have developed elaborate systems for keeping track of what poems have already found a home, which […]
Sorting through my mother’s belongings, I uncovered a perplexing life. She was an artist and a connoisseur of the absurd. As a child, I admired her paintings, but tiptoed past the stranger ones. In nightmares, my mother stood in a dark closet behind a portrait of a gnarled […]
Underline Poetry – Broadcast & Archive launched on August 15th, 2018, as a poetry-based web-series. The first two episodes are available either on YouTube (we'd love for you to subscribe: http://bit.ly/UnderlineYT) or on the Underline Poetry Co. website (www.UnderlinePoetry.org). Our website also showcases: additional information regarding Underline Poetry […]
Underline Poetry – Broadcast & Archive launched on August 15th, 2018, as a poetry-based web-series. The first two episodes are available either on YouTube (we'd love for you to subscribe: http://bit.ly/UnderlineYT) or on the Underline Poetry Co. website (www.UnderlinePoetry.org). Our website also showcases: additional information regarding Underline Poetry […]
This is a story about my new collection of poetry. I should say up front that I have no idea what the moral of this story is. Something something persistence, maybe. Something something luck of the draw. Definitely something about privilege. Possibly something something Serenity Prayer, because the […]
How do you find your way into a poem? Sometimes it's that sensory moment--a line of melody, the flash of a redbird's wing, the drift of scent on fickle breeze. Sometimes the pump must be primed. You might read other writers, listen to music, or flip through a […]
Sometimes people come to me to ask for advice on how to write a book review. My internal response is "I don't know," and yet, I've written nearly 30 book reviews in the past twelve months. Instead of this unhelpful answer I tell them--remain open, put aside yourself […]
My new book from Two Sylvias Press, PR for Poets, is a guide for beginning to mid-career poets to learn how to build an audience and promote their books. Think of it as a guide to getting read. People have asked me many times while doing talks on […]
