Category Archives: Poetry

The Next Big Thing

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

I was tagged in “The Next Big Thing,” a self-interview chain for writers with books coming out. Thanks, Mark Lamoureux, for tagging me. (Mark is one of my favorite poets, and two new books of his are about to come out or … Continue reading →

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Happy Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

Here’s a poem for the day from my book The Man in Green, published back in 1996 by Lee Chapman’s First Intensity Press. The Pumpkins at Panther Lake Another ambivalent landscape, October a boy hangs a dummy from a flagpole into dark … Continue reading →

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The Publick Universal Friend, Mary Tammer: sources of The Mornith War

Posted on May 26, 2012 by

  Across the entire breadth of New York State, undeviating, a hilly strip scarcely twenty-five miles wide invites the world’s wonder. It is a broad psychic highway, a thoroughfare of the occult whose great stations number the mystic seven. For … Continue reading →

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Mourning doves, Lorine Niedecker: sources of The Mornith War

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

The Mornith War is full of things that got my attention at the time I was writing. Events in my neighborhood, my world … books I was reading … my nightly dreams and nightmares … whatever parts of my experience … Continue reading →

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More on war

Posted on June 26, 2011 by

Trouble discussed briefly in a recent post on the The Mornith War has me thinking about an unfinished poem of mine from around 2004. I looked at it again this morning for the first time in years, wondered why I never thought of it while writing Mornith, and … Continue reading →

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