What's in Name
Lovelies, Why is the new book called The Elegy Beta you ask? Well, that's a fine question. You always ask such astute and piercing questions. The title...
The Elegy Beta Book Announcement!!!
My second poem book is coming soon! The fine folks at Mockingbird are publishing it. I couldn’t be more pleased. Awhile ago on twitter, someone asked a group...
New One
Alright To start things off, here is a preview of a documentary film about my wife's ballet Apex. It's showing now through September at the San Juan Islands...
Tickled
The people! First, there are a lot of new subscribers here; would you all mind making them feel welcome? Man, have some things been happening. I don’t know...
Cuttings
People, Alas and alack! That SAT essay I was telling you about in my last newsletter is finished but the editors are still sitting on it. I'll have to link...
What it is
Hello Lovelies, It's a fine Spring shaping up here in Seattle: tulips dropping their opulent heads, the cherries flowering and falling, the light stretching...
Horizon Line
Hi (especially new) friends! It happened! Who knows how long it will stay, but Spring has pounced on Seattle and we're all dizzy from the blow. Let us steady...
Adieu 2018
Dear ones, Thus concludes a year, another full of mirth and myrrh. When I cast the sidelong glance, here are the peaks topping the geography: This was the...
Leaves- Sibylline, Autumnal and Otherwise
The People! I don't want to press too hard on your graces, bestrewing news and updates, suggestions for cultural refinements about your patch with the...
After this charade
Dear ones, Summer in Seattle has mostly passed and we Willetts have made appropriate oblations, with a trip to Friday Harbor so Mrs. Willett could go whale-...
Pre-Spring: another season of waiting
Lovelies, For those of you just joining us, this is a little letter I send out very occasionally to people who might vaguely be interesting in the arts, or...
Big Trip East!
Dear ones, I had sort of been waiting for some new publications to drop, so I could link to them, thereby gilding your reading life, but they remain aloft,...
Thankful for
Friends, It's a crisp and resplendent autumn here is Seattle, and since I last sent a note, some things have happened: The great Richard Wilbur died; he was...