Monthly Archives: March 2010

Three poems in Issue 3 of Knockout

Posted on March 30, 2010

I have three poems in Issue Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2010 of Knockout Literary Magazine: “Letter to Mexico,” “What I Preach I Preach For the Sake of What We Excavate,” and “What Twenty Titles and Nine Drafts Later I … Continue reading →

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Featured Poet in Winter 2010 Issue of Blue Fifth Review

Posted on March 25, 2010

I’m the featured poet in the Winter 2010 Issue of Blue Fifth Review, special theme: the body.  The poems featured include “The Allentown Aubades” from The Erotic Postulate, “Circe’s Letterpress” from Skin Shift, and “After Jamaica, June” and “Spiral Compact … Continue reading →

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Wordle-ing My Manuscripts

Posted on March 2, 2010

I’ve noticed some poet friends Wordle-ing (is that a verb?) their poetry manuscripts.  I couldn’t resist.  After I finished my first manuscript some years ago I made a list of words I felt I overused in it and then forbid … Continue reading →

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Some Musings About Influence

Posted on March 1, 2010

I finished Homer’s Iliad (Fagles translation) last night (it’s been my subway reading since the turn of the year) and had my hairs stand on end when I read these lines by the ghost of Patroclus speaking to Achilles: “So … Continue reading →

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