Ever since the age of four

Flickering cowboy Quickmuse shows how thinking can happen in poems. How it gets shortcutted into a footbridge over the chasm. How editing i...

Stop Go Stop Go Working on a new book has its disadvantages. It tends to take advantage of my guilt. Any moment I am standing still a though...

[Tara Jane O'Neil] Has she made herself very clear Remember: A handpainted Mexican chair hurling across the room. A palomino running acr...

Fast is Slow Operative metaphors learned while running through the woods in the dark: fast is slow. If you run too fast, you'll snag you...

Bios of The Ulster Country Three We are reading this Friday, 11/2 at 7 pm at the American General Store in West Shokan, New York Luc Sante...

Mea Culpa Why has it been so long? Isn't that the question you never want to have to publish? Because I was hired to write a blog, and...

Mike McGonigal in the Green Room at Bumbershoot I'm Making a List On the eve of surgery I have this urge to make a list of all the outst...

I can almost hear you Having lived with a perforated eardrum for a few years now I am finally scheduled for surgery. What they do is called...

Come and Set a Piece: NYC Reading Sept 18th: Reading in NYC with Luc Sante at 6:30. Here's the blurb from the New Yorker : knitting fac...

Heading to Bumbershoot I'm writing from Holocene, the 3nd night of the Halleluwah Festival, listening to a group hum. Tomorrow it's ...

Portland No better way to return to life than listening to Califone do a soundcheck at a club in Portland, Oregon. I'm reading here to...

Went to the Ulster County Fair. Ate a corn dog, walked through the 4H poultry house. New beloved writer: Sonia Rivera-Valdés . Beautiful sto...