My latest collection is now available to order from Wiseblood Books. It will be shipped in February 2026. I’ve been trying to figure out ways to talk about this book in a way that makes sense, but this collection is 20 years in the making. It’s like attempting to describe 20 years of your life. […]
Read More…now Cycnus out of Troy, the son of Neptune, cut his thousand down, and now Achilles in his chariot pressed on relentlessly against his foe, flattening ranks of Trojans with each thrust of his great spear, fashioned out of wood from a tree harvested on Pelion; and as he searched for Hector or for Cycnus… […]
Read MoreIn the cleared space in the middle of the room, a tired-looking man in a worn tuxedo was beating the life out of an exhausted grand piano. All of the furniture, including the piano, was enameled a garish orange. A sequence of orange-haired nudes romped and languished along the walls under a glaze of grime. […]
Read MoreWe afterwards moved away a space, and saw the whole (waterfall) more mild, streaming silverly through the trees. What astonished me more than any thing is the tone, the coloring, the slate, the stone, the moss, the rock-weed; or, if I may so say, the intellect, the countenance of such places. The space, the magnitude […]
Read MoreWhat’s left of the avant-garde–there isn’t much because anything can be packaged and made mainstream in this county–continues to insist on the (highly problematical) concepts of innovation and marginality. The old is relegated to the dustbin of history, and the new is briefly given its moment, usually by an outsider. This set of ideas replicates […]
Read MoreI’ve signed a contract with Wiseblood Books for a full length collection of poetry that will be published in early 2026. The collection is finished, except that after I submitted mine, I then read co-Wiseblood poet Anna Lewis’ collection Memory’s Abacus and thought, “Whoa! She has some fireworks!” Then I got nervous and thought, “Maybe I should add a […]
Read MoreThe law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. – Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye. Page 53.
Read MoreReformed Journal published a couple of my poems and were kind enough to host me on their weekly poetry podcast to talk about “Hawk Lies Down With Rabbit.” Listen here if you’d like.
Read MoreTo experience a story like that, you can’t be looking for connections with Dante. You can’t be thinking. You have to be drawn into it. You have to come away from your story and say, “Boy, that story made me hungry. It was hot where I was. And it was isolated, and the wind blew […]
Read MoreIn the modest stillness of your heart you must cherish victorious truth, display it from within yourself in Beauty, so that not merely thought may pay homage to it, but sense too may lay loving hold on its appearance. And lest by any chance you may receive the pattern you are to give it from […]
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