Wallace Stevens: “There are a lot of things one ought to do”
When is the last time you walked up to a shelf of books—in [...]
Gary Snyder on Remaining Unprepared
There is no substitute for presence. - Gary Snyder, April 24, 2013 [...]
Woodland Wildflowers in the Saugatuck Dunes
I found a patch of blooming round-lobed hepatica the other day [...]
Keith Taylor’s New Chapbook
This winter I saw an exhibit of Ellsworth Kelly's plant lithographs. Large scale [...]
Analog Clocks
Analog clocks—I love them. I photographed these last weekend. Anybody recognize them? When [...]
Blackout Poetry in Rural Michigan
The other evening, on my way out of a middle-school basketball [...]
The Next Big Thing: We Live Here
Thank you Holly Wren Spaulding for tagging me in this community effort to [...]
Art As Breathing Pause: Rebecca Brand
Last month—December, the month of blur for me, every single year—there [...]
Love, An Index–Poems on Love and Grief
Poetry might be the wildest retro-thing going in the literary world, especially when [...]
I Need to Keep Reading Terry Tempest Williams
We can no longer deny the destiny that is ours by becoming women [...]