Graduate school and teaching is kicking my ass. I will post something of substance soon. Please stay tuned. But to hold you over, here is a picture of me reading some new work this past week at the MFA reading for the Hemingway Festival in Moscow, Idaho. (You can tell it is more noir poems because […]
When I started writing, I was given some good advice: “Read more than you write.” This bit of wisdom could appear a little trite no kidding, I can’t write a novel every two weeks! On a deeper level, it encourages a writer to branch out to new books, new authors and develop a relationship with […]
April is also National Poetry Month. If you are like the average American, you’re able to shrug it off pretty well. You might even complain that there seems to be an awful lot of verse on NPR lately. If you hunker down, it will all be over in thirty days. But this month, I want […]
Although I read a great deal, I have not read much science fiction. My best friend cites the characters and plotlines of the major science fiction novels of the past twenty years like a Baptist preacher quotes the Bible. “Orson Scott Card mentioned a situation like this in his third novel of the Ender series…” […]