and you should too.

Okay, I admit it. At first I was a little ho-hum about participating in a staged reading of The Vagina Monologues. (Isn’t that, like, a little mid-90s?) But someone I admire asked me to, and so I said okay. And now, thinking about performing my little bit tomorrow night, along with other Trinity women faculty […]

Reading @ Trinity University, Ruth Taylor Hall Art Gallery Friday April 1 (no fooling!) at 4p.m. Robinson is from the northeast coast near Perth, but has lived for many years in London, where he is currently deputy publishing director for Jonathan Cape. His debut, A PAINTED FIELD, won the 1997 Forward First Book Prize and […]

Okay, I admit it. At first I was a little ho-hum about participating in a staged reading of The Vagina Monologues. (Isn’t that, like, a little mid-90s?) But someone I admire asked me to, and so I said okay. And now, thinking about performing my little bit tomorrow night, along with other Trinity women faculty […]

I have a short essay up, along with a wide and illuminating range of responses to Claudia Rankine‘s Open Letter on writing about race. Thanks to Claudia for asking, and continuing to ask. And interesting to be thinking back on Sierra Leone right now, as I’ll be returning in May with the University of Iowa’s […]

I’m really looking forward to reading/talking at Potter-Belmar Labs next Colloquium. With any luck, I’ll be able to say something articulate, or at least entertaining, about my new manuscript, and how the poems function like painterly “studies” on themes of race, place, art-making, marriage, grief etc., you know, all the little stuff. Come on out. […]

For what it’s worth, I highly recommend reading Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day in a hotel room in January, in downtown Los Angeles, alone. It’s a new year. “Every morning I think I’ve become the new weather Like embroidering something after, trying to remember The half-lies of dreams A day halfway Between fall and spring To […]

Thanks to Tin House for taking five poems for the summer issue. It’s the title sequence of Some Studies for the Monster, a new poetry manuscript that I’m starting to let myself get excited about. Thanks also to Amanda Hesser for the nice shout about my Modern Love essay on the Paris Review Blog. Although […]