I’m guest-blogging over at The Best American Poetry blog this week.
Yes, you read that correctly. I’m guest-blogging over the the blog for The Best American Poetry series. I’ll be writing about The Incredible Sestina Anthology, mostly, since that’s what I am pimping...
View ArticleBoundlessness limited by skin: Americana and artifice in Alice Fulton’s...
In The Poet’s Notebook, a 1997 collection of excerpts from 26 contemporary American poets’ notebooks, Alice Fulton transcribes a rather famous quotation from country singer Dolly Parton: “Most people...
View ArticleTropes, Command, Control: On the Duotrope pay wall announcement.
We call ourselves writers because that is who are. It is what we do. We sit. Or we stand Or we squat. And then something happens that takes us away from that sitting, standing, and squatting. A website...
View ArticleJust up on The Nervous Breakdown: “Moby-Cock; or The Term Paper.”
I finally got off my metaphorical bar stool to write about the debacle that was “Moby-Cock,” a paper I wrote as a student at Rutgers-Camden. That’s the only remaining notes I have from it, above. The...
View ArticleSample chapter from rejected 33-1/3 proposal for book on Queen’s News of the...
July 1977. Members of the rock band Queen and their crew record tracks for their sixth album at Wessex Studios in downtown London. In an adjacent studio, another band, the Sex Pistols, are working on...
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