Line tamer.
As we were preparing the galleys for The Erotic Postulate this past spring, I was revisiting poems I had written more than 10 years ago. Most of them still held up–a different style from how I’m writing these days, but I’m excited to have them soon out in the world to expand the conversation I’m having Read More …
A new poem, “Cross Bucket Candle Knife,” is up at The Offending Adam. It’s an ekphrastic response to Max Ernst’s Trois Poemes Visibles from his Una Semaine de Bonté: A Surrealist Novel in Collage (1933) and the poem sections align with his collage sections. It’s part of a triptych of poems. “Caliper Owl Thistle Fork” appeared in Crazyhorse late last Read More …
Publishing this on time this year and not four months into the new year. =) Now that 2013 is over I can present my annual list of books I enjoyed reading over the previous year. As always, I present these in alphabetical order by author. They are a mix of poetry, prose, and art monographs, Read More …
Last day of the year, and last day for these ornament posts. Rather than focus on a single ornament today, I give you all of them in one shot on my little tree. I hope you’ve enjoyed these little vignettes over the past month. I decided to do this as part of a “30-Day challenge” Read More …
Michael went to a conference in Rome earlier this month and brought back some trinkets from the Bartolucci woodworking shop where they specialize in handmade Pinocchios, including this new addition to my tree. I just realized that his body is backwards in the photo below, the single silver circle on his chest a magnet Read More …
Happy fifth day of Christmas. Today I bring you a paper Moravian star, which you can buy already folded and tree-ready at the Moravian Book Shop. I remember an orange and red one on our tree growing up, but I’m not sure where it got to. You can also buy kits to make these stars Read More …
Well, thanks to my older sister, check Marilyn off my ornament wish list. Here she is decked out in the dress she wore in the opening number, “Two Little Girls from Little Rock” in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. I gave my older sister a sparkly ice blue owl, with lots of cut-outs and negative space in its spread wings, Read More …
Happy third day of Christmas. Another train post. My dad wanted a Santa Fe Lionel engine when he was twelve. He settled for the same style diesel in the Erie line, bought it with his paper money when he was 14. The Santa Fe engine is expensive now, but Michael found a Santa Fe locomotive Read More …
Happy Boxing Day. It’s become a family tradition in recent years to go have lunch together at the Brew Works in downtown Bethlehem and then walk up and down Main Street and pop into shops like Donegal Square and the Moravian Book Shop. That’s where the beeswax angel came from on my tree. The cloying Read More …
Merry Christmas! I hope the Santas in your life were good to you today. Today marks the beginning of the twelve days of Christmas in case that ever confused you (we all know how marketing and radio hosts like to screw that up), the period from now until Epiphany on January 6th when the wise Read More …