There is a statistic going around that the “average” American has read one or fewer books in the past year. Although I find this terrifying, I know there are a lot of us reading fanatics picking up the slack. Near the first of January, instead of making a New Year’s resolution, my good friend posts […]
The longer I am in my MFA program, the more I notice a distinction between what my classmates and I are reading and what members of my extended family are reading. While I was finishing Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Zak Smith’s memoir We Did Porn, my relatives finished the third book in the Twilight […]
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 […]