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Poems Published at Reformed Journal

Reformed 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.  

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Season Two of “In Solitude, For Company”

I’m preparing Season Two of my email newsletter “In Solitude, For Company.” Newsletter is a misnomer. There will be very little news. In fact, it’s kind of anti-news. You can expect essays about some old things, especially literature. Here’s what to expect over the next few months: Andre Dubus’ “A Father’s Story” is one of […]

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Sonnets Published

Ekstasis Magazine published a new double sonnet called, “My Wife Doesn’t Like These Sonnets.” She does like them though, so I guess I’m lying to you. Read it by clicking on the picture.

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New Short Story

The new regional press Belle Point Press published its inaugural work, an anthology of regional Mid/South (Not quite Midwestern, or Southern, or Southwestern) writers. They included my story “Plaster Madonna.” You can order your copy here if that first page hooks you.

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Alan Jacobs on Auden’s “Local Culture”

…[A]rt, while it cannot of its own power enforce any alteration of consciousness or morality, can help those who would be joined together to find their desired unity. Artists can never become the legislators of the world, acknowledged or unacknowledged, but they can become after a fashion public servants. Yet even this they can do successfully only […]

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Stegner on Regionalism & Art

“Regionalism, cultural regionalism, is not an antiquarian fad like the cult of the hillbilly. It is contemporary, and it deals by preference with the usual rather than with the unusual, with the essentially normal rather than the picturesque, with cultures which are continuous and vital rather than with the isolated and the moribund. It is […]

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