Monthly Archives: February 2008

The Old Burying Ground

Posted on February 29, 2008

Happy Leap Day. So last night I attended the University of Michigan at Carnegie Hall concert thanks to some tickets from a new friend and colleague, Tom Wisniewski. We were in Box 1 on the first tier, practically part of … Continue reading →

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On Fragments and Unpublished Work

Posted on February 26, 2008

A conversation started on GoodReads in response to my line “Remind me to destroy my fragments folder before I die” when I was commenting on Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box, the volume of fragments and unpublished poems Alice … Continue reading →

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Michael Palmer’s The Promises of Glass and Company of Moths

Posted on February 24, 2008

I heard Michael Palmer read back when I was studying at Michigan. Perhaps I wasn’t ready for him then (that happens, that writers speak to you at different points in your life, even certain books speak to you differently when … Continue reading →

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Emily Rosko’s Raw Goods Inventory

Posted on February 23, 2008

I was re-reading Raw Goods Inventory after seeing Emily at AWP earlier this month and have two new favorite poems: “The Toy Divine(s)” and “Less Art, More Monkeys” (in addition to my old time favorites: “Elephant,” “At the Sushi Arcade,” the … Continue reading →

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Beth Anne Royer’s Radio Dreams

Posted on February 22, 2008

I’m often refreshed by poets who can handle humor effortlessly, especially when they know how to balance their tonal range through sequencing, as Beth Anne does: at times the poems are subdued and deadpan in their humor, at times situational … Continue reading →

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Philip Roth’s The Breast

Posted on February 18, 2008

I stole this off Aimee’s shelf while I was cleaning her room this weekend. A favorite line: “After all…who is the greater artist, he who imagines the marvelous transformation, or he who marvelously transforms himself?” I often think something similar … Continue reading →

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Snow Glow

Posted on February 12, 2008

It snowed tonight. I forgot about the reflective glow of the snow at night under the street lamps, and even where there are no lights, the air illumined by that eerie rusty orange light, as if I were on Mars … Continue reading →

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