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Poets with boring jobs

March 12, 2014

Because looking for a new job has occupied me lately, I want to talk about poets with boring jobs. In this category I count anyone who's written poems but...

Instax Winter

February 12, 2014

I put together a poem with some photographs in a short chapbook called Instax Winter. I'll mail you a copy for $2.50, or you can see a PDF of it here. I...

Troll poetry

January 13, 2014

(This is the latest in a series of letters about poems and what I love in them.) The commonest insult to lob at a poem is "This isn't a poem at all!" I've...

A house full of empty fruit bowls

December 10, 2013

(This is the third in a series of letters about poems and what I love in them.) "Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living," says...

Some arrows; future perfect.

November 13, 2013

(This is the second in a series of letters about poems and what I love in them. You probably subscribed to these letters when I sold you a chapbook of...

Poems, puzzles, and grapefruit.

October 8, 2013

(This is the first in a series of letters about poems and what I love in them. You probably subscribed to these letters when I sold you a chapbook of...