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…
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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…
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…
Grid-bolted Desks
The twenty-seven desks of Bunche 3117, a small UCLA classroom, remain bolted to the floor, as they have been for…
Reading Bill Mohr, Hold Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948-1992
Twice I’ve seen the poet and critic Bill Mohr hold aloft a copy of Laurence Goldstein’s Poetry Los Angeles. Mohr…
Los Angeles Made Wild: Eloise Klein Healy, Artemis in Echo Park
Eloise Klein Healy is one of those writers whose style became associated with L.A. after the 1960s: loose lines, conversational…
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…
Nine poems up at Underfoot Poetry
A selection from my current project, Naming the Animals, is up at Underfoot Poetry. Thanks to editors Tim Miller and…
Poem up at panoply
Thanks to Andrea, Jeff and Ryn for publishing “Ravenous” at panoply. This is a themed issue, collecting poems around Adam &…
After Auschwitz, Poetry: Ewa Chrusciel’s Of Annunciations
Theodor Adorno warned against poetry after Auschwitz. To write it, he said, is “barbaric” because “critical intelligence … confines itself…
Left Write & Centaur 