Year in Review 2021 📆
Oh my dears! The world so changed! Fewer things of note happened this year that might have: I threw fewer parties, attended fewer conferences, gave no public...
Proxima Nov
Dear ones, First, this is a place on the earth and I live here. I just wanted to point that out. Then, let's see, I went to Boston for Lilly and saw my good...
I've Got You Now
Wait a second, can it really have been that long? We haven't had a missive since Spring? Goodness. I've missed you all. I want to go back and tell you the...
Round tones 🎧
People! I've been blessed to have articulate blurbs for my books from people I admire, James K.A. Smith, Scott Cairns, Malcom Guite, to name only the most...
Peter and the Whale 🐋
If I feel close to this animal, it's because I helped dig up its bones. They weren't ready yet, having only cured in the soil for eight or so months and...
How the Sausage, and new Digs!
Well, well, well. How the time gets away, no? Here's what's happened since last we communed: I attended my first residency as a poetry mentor in SPU's...
Children's books that don't make you want to 🤮
Hello dear ones, I've missed you these last weeks, and have much to share, as usual, but rather than launch spectacularly into the cultural and writerly...
Taking down the Tinsel
My Dears, How is there always so much happening? Every time I sit down to pen you a missive, I think O, I’ll just jot a short note and then am interrupted...
Spout (off) v.2 🌬
NB- some of you will have seen this update already. I tried a different email distributor and it was a disaster. Here then is the email you should have...
The Fall Steals 🍁
Well well well. Autumn is creeping down from the tops of the trees which gold there first and it has almost fallen, before rains come and fell all the leaves...
Wild Ride-ICYMI 🎢
Hello Dear Ones, I have been coming back, if not to normalcy--it's too soon for a word like that--at least to some familiar rhythms these last weeks. I've...
Wild Ride 🎢
Hello Dear Ones, I have been coming back, if not to normalcy--it's too soon for a word like that--at least to some familiar rhythms these last weeks. I've...
Down the road
Alright friends. Here’s what’s up: First, my family took a road trip to Arizona. It was our first such outing of—if the sitcoms are to be believed—what will...
Hang in there 🚠
Okay Lovelies, How are we doing? This extrovert is crumpling up without the sunlight of daily interactions, though I am blessed to have a yard with which to...
A Mediated Reading 🖥️ ...tomorrow!
Lovelies, It will not surprise those of you who know me well that I will take the analog over the digital any day: real lectures over online, real letters...
"Happy" Saint Patrick's Day ☘️
Dear ones, This is an uncertain and difficult time to be sure, or perhaps it is only a more clearly uncertain and difficult time than we are wont to face,...
🪐 The Elegy Beta has landed 🪐
It's here! 🍾 After nearly ten years in process, The Elegy Beta hits bookstores Today! I started writing the elegies in September 2010 and now they'll be in...
Ignition Sequence
Dear ones, You can pre-order The Elegy Beta right now‼️ I can't tell you how strange it feels to say that. This thing that has been puzzled over and prayed,...
Elegy Beta Cover Reveal
Dear ones, I'm not sure this is completely finalized, but I can't keep the lid on this. We have a cover for The Elegy Beta! As I think I mentioned in my...
Year in Review 2019
2019 Obviously, every day is significant in its own way, but when I look back on 2019, here are some milestones, way-markers, cairns to memorialize the too-...