Ever since the age of four

Department of Instastories Picture # 32 She drove herself 45 miles south, 5 miles west, for no particular reason. Then she moved over into t...

On reading with a poet I'm reading with the poet Iris Litt at the Woodstock Poetry Society (6/9, at 2). Aside from the question on regi...

Just got asked if I thought of myself as a regional writer.

Note to Harley Harley, the lines you were looking for were from Why I Got Fired (p. 71 in the book or online at sporkpress): Stopped mid-di...

Russian Lover and Other Stories That below, as well as in proximity, is the book cover. The book is out--very soon. It's collected shor...

After she died I lost my voice. Maybe she was my muse. Or someone to fight against. Maybe it was the process of finishing a book so quickly....

And my mother being very very sick, as I am getting the book done, as she is reading it, as she warns me: some people may not like this, yo...

Books by the following would help the desert island situation: Richard Siken, Elaina Ganim, Sam Lipsyte, Joy Williams, Hugh Steinberg, Alf E...

People sometimes ask how I write. I'm working on the Perforation story, started as a prose poem, and then life got in the way as it o...

F irst real snowfall, 8 inches, fell fast . The road I live on lies in a bona fide hollow between two mountains, and it's about 300 year...

C linton for president again. December 7, Miami: Luggage belonging to Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, is blown up after air marshals shot and kille...