On Sunday, I received and email from the folks at Winged City Chapbooks (an imprint of New Sins Press) that they had selected my manuscript “The Geography of Removal” as their annual contest winner. Thrilled could be used to describe my reaction. Perhaps squeeing might be a better aural approximation. I had submitted “Geography” at the […]
The Fall 2011 issue of RFD Magazine is dedicated to Walt Whitman and Edward Carpenter. My essay about Whitman, Montana, and Allen Ginsberg “Stranger if You Passing Meet Me” can be found therein. RFD Magazine is that began in 1974 after “The Whole Earth Catalog” refused to print anything about gay men. Originally aimed at reaching […]
I recently had a lively exchange with a fellow poet about women getting it on with other women in poetry. In the poems, the speaker or narrator (as far as can be surmised about such things) identified as heterosexual. The poems under discussion were brave for their honest discussion of secrets and sexuality–experiences that get […]
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It is the first week of classes and I have been spending my time between getting a bunch of preparatory work done for teaching my Composition and Rhetoric class and trying to be as unproductive as possible. In lieu of a thoughtful and provocative post on writing, I thought that a small photo essay might be nice. […]
William Reichard is the author of four collections of poetry: Sin Eater (2010); This Brightness (2007); How To (2004). All three were published by Mid-List Press. He was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and An Alchemy in the Bones (New Rivers Press, 1999) won a MN Voices […]
For the past three days, I have been watching men in my driveway dig deeper and deeper into the earth. It has something to do with an underground power line that has been defunct for a better part of a year. The problem in getting the line fixed is that it’s buried below more than four feet […]
Check out my mini-essay on music over at Charles Jensen’s blog Kinema Poetics! Dream of the Unified Media: Jory Mickelson on The Cure’s Disintegration: “Coming Out & Coming Apart” Plainsong I can feel the heavy wash of synthesizers vibrating their way out from the scratchy…”
I returned home last night from the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. It was a great week of workshops, craft talks and readings. I spent six days in the workshop of the poet Carl Phillips who had many things to say about kinds of repetition and pattern in poetry. The drafts of poems I brought to class […]
Dear Readers, I am headed off to the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference all next week. I will be slaving working at the conference and also taking a workshop from the poet Carl Phillips. I am thrilled to take the class and extremely grateful for the folks at Centrum who asked me to come and work. I […]