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Reading Sara Ryan’s Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned
September 28, 2019

Reading Sara Ryan’s Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned

Within reach from my desk is a small wooden box. Inside is a snake’s skull, the gift of a friend…

  • June 24, 2019
    Distressed Stucco
  • December 24, 2018
    Meditation and Story
  • July 16, 2018
    Reading Bill Mohr, Hold Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948-1992
  • June 25, 2018
    Los Angeles Made Wild: Eloise Klein Healy, Artemis in Echo Park
  • June 15, 2018
    Infinity Mirror: Hans Eijkelboom, People of the Twenty-First Century
Politics
Herman Melville Meets Donald Trump
September 20, 2019

Herman Melville Meets Donald Trump

I spent a day reading Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson’s mid-century meditation on Melville, Moby-Dick, and the American idea. Halfway…

  • April 3, 2018
    Signs and Portents
  • March 7, 2018
    Still Life with Pedal Car
  • February 13, 2018
    On Drought and Salt
  • January 9, 2018
    Flotsam
  • September 29, 2017
    Ai Weiwei Sojourns in Venice
Poetry, Fiction & the Arts
Mary Oliver & Gerard Manley Hopkins
January 25, 2019

Mary Oliver & Gerard Manley Hopkins

Last week I read Gerard Manley Hopkins at length for the first time (I’d read “Spring and Fall” several times…

  • January 16, 2019
    Grid-bolted Desks
  • December 24, 2018
    Meditation and Story
  • June 25, 2018
    Los Angeles Made Wild: Eloise Klein Healy, Artemis in Echo Park
  • June 15, 2018
    Infinity Mirror: Hans Eijkelboom, People of the Twenty-First Century
  • May 31, 2018
    The Awful Mystery of the Divine: Tim Miller, Hymns & Lamentations
Seven Cemeteries
Finding Unpublished Verses
November 22, 2017

Finding Unpublished Verses

If you lose your parents in middle age, then by the time you sort their school papers, you’ve resolved most…

  • October 23, 2017
    Reconstructing a Grandmother
  • September 28, 2017
    The Suitcase at the Center of Nebraska
  • September 11, 2017
    My Impending Catastrophe
  • September 3, 2017
    Imperfection
  • September 1, 2017
    The Stillborn Photograph
Folio
Poem up at Ambit
January 16, 2019

Poem up at Ambit

I’ve neglected to update this page for a few months, so I have some back-filling to do. The first piece…

  • May 15, 2018
    Nine poems up at Underfoot Poetry
  • May 4, 2018
    Poem up at panoply
  • April 21, 2018
    Poem up at Convergence
  • February 5, 2018
    Mama Wake Your Child
  • January 30, 2018
    When the Garden Burns
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URLs I Love

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Ideas and Provocations

The Economist because it intelligently digests the previous week’s global politics, business, culture and personalities. Since 1844, The Economist has championed a libertarian-centrist vision with humor and respect for its readers. Unlike many publications, The Economist keeps track of its own editorial commitments, freely (and almost proudly) confessing errors of judgment over time. I read it cover-to-cover late every Saturday night, with in a rocking chair with a glass of wine.

The New Yorker because it still showcases some of the world’s best long-form journalism, both on headline issues and on little-known ideas, personalities, and  events. Extra points for its cultural criticism and for “Talk of the Town”

The Atlantic because, for the last thirty years, it has framed the national agenda. Reading The Atlantic, I have a pretty fair idea what politicians and journalists will be talking about over the ensuing months.

Harper’s Magazine because it is reliably skeptical of wealth, power, media, and established institutions. Bonus: Harper’s Index.

The New Inquiry because this Brooklyn-based online-only magazine has an eclectic vision and critical sass that give The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s more than a bit of competition.

The New York Review of Books because I can’t read everything on my own, and The New Criterion because I don’t want to pretend that the only readers remaining in the world are on the Left.

Visual Arts

Colossal because it’s a mind-blowing digest of visual culture.

idsgn: A Design Blog because design – good and bad – shapes everything from policy to daily life.

Poetry & Fiction

The Poetry Foundation because most every American style ultimately finds a home here.

World Literature Today because the United States isn’t big enough for everything that needs saying.

The Sun Magazine because I like hearing people telling their  own stories – especially people I’d never otherwise meet.

World Affairs

Le Monde Diplomatique (English edition) because it is strongest where other sources are weakest, developing stories from rarely-covered parts of Eastern Europe, West Africa, and Southeast Asia as well as fresh perspectives on women’s lives, the environment, migration, and the global economy.

PRI’s The World because, from Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women’s lacrosse to Iranian elections and Brazil’s growing Pentacostal churches, this program is on the ground everywhere. Bonus: every show devotes a segment to the world’s popular musics. The playlist alone is worth a visit.

Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy because I want to know how the establishment thinks about the world. The American Interest because – though it reflects views from the foreign policy establishment – critiques it from a nationalist perspective, and The New Internationalist because it does the same from the Left.

Politics & Policy

The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times and “All Things Considered,” because, as a matter of fact, those journalists who work in “the mainstream media” regularly do  extraordinary work.

The news & opinion digests realclearpolitics, realclearpolicy, realclearworld and others from RealClear Media Group because because they curate a range of views, though largely within a Centrist and Center-Right frame.

Jacobin, The Nation, In These Times, Truthdig, and Moyers & Company because the mainstream often overlooks stories and perspectives developing on the Left. On the Right, the go-to list includes American Conservative, The Weekly Standard, and The National Review.

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