poetry
Long time, no news.  Actually, there’s been lots of news but also lots of sadness. That, and obsessive political blog reading. So for now, here’s a picture of our Day of the Dead altar and an elegy to one of my favorite poets, in memory. Elegy on Toy Piano       By Dean […]
So much fun to be back with old Evansville friends and fellow Michener Center fellows to read and drink wine at Patchwork Central.  Great local cheese and vegetables too. Here are few articles about the event, one from the arts columnist and one from the (a-hem) social column of the Evansville Courier and Press. (Scroll down […]
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.Â
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, […]
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.Â