Coyotes
When our Daylight Savings Time-delayed dawn finally began around 8 this morning, I was relieved to find fog and an overcast sky. The kaleidoscopic brilliance of [...]
ArtPrize
Have you been thinking about ArtPrize? I have. I stumbled on one Laguna Beach, California blogger's praise for the event. The praise and the comments are interesting. [...]
Elizabeth Dodd, Elizabeth Bishop, and Me
The other night I got to sit across the dinner table from poet Elizabeth Dodd. Elizabeth and I have some things in common: we were both born [...]
Thesauruses (Thesauri!)
In the Mark Doty interview I mentioned Monday he compares using words found in a thesaurus to donning someone else's clothes. Hmmm. I'm sympathetic, but I know [...]
Dictionaries Are Like Bookstores
In medias res. That's where I'll have to begin. It's where I am pretty much all the time anyway. I've been reading an interview with poet Mark [...]