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The Awful Mystery of the Divine: Tim Miller, Hymns & Lamentations

Last month, the poet Tim Miller published a large batch of my poems in Underfoot, an online journal he co-edits…

A selection from my current project, Naming the Animals, is up at Underfoot Poetry. Thanks to editors Tim Miller and…

Thanks to Andrea, Jeff and Ryn for publishing “Ravenous” at panoply. This is a themed issue, collecting poems around Adam &…

Theodor Adorno warned against poetry after Auschwitz. To write it, he said, is “barbaric” because “critical intelligence … confines itself…

Thanks to the editors at Convergence for publishing “The Fruit.” It’s one of a series, “Naming the Animals.”

Toward the end of my usual walk in Venice, I was confronted by a graffitied warning, on Hampton Drive: GET…

Five weeks ago, a carefully arranged still life appeared on a nearby street. It consisted of a bike frame, a…

I am reading Bashō, Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Narrow Road recounts Bashō’s late-17th century…

Tonight, thankfully, it’s raining. About time. L.A. supposedly saw off a brutal drought a year ago. Then came last year’s…

I’ve begun recording poems I’ve published over the last thirty years. I’d like to post unpublished work too, but most…