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My short review of James Schuyler's Other Flowers: Uncollected Poem s is out in the current issue of Pleiades . 

Drove up with my pal Douglas from NYC to Henniker, NH, where we read at New England College as alumni readers for our former MFA progr...

1.  I did a ceremony involving arugula, blue cheese, strawberries, and a Blue Moon beer.  A lunch ceremony. 2.  I read some poems by Elai...

(after a line by Peter Davis) The only person named Tina that I remember knowing was from 4th or 5th grade.  She was small with a cute dol...

How worried are you about a continuous notion of “I” and whether the you who did whatever thing ten years ago is the same you today,...

1.  Sitting in a window eating sushi and udon noodles. 2.  Two ten year-old boys eating at a table by themselves, a serious look about them...

I should have been a librarian.  I've always liked the smell, even though the summer when I worked at the college library taking ancient...

Yesterday I went to the library.  The NYPL was built during the Progressive Era to "establish and maintain a free library and read...

"I have talked to them about this and that, I have explained the twilight, admittedly.  But is it enough, that's what tortures me, ...

1.  I don't think consciousness lives only in the mind.  All your cells know it.  Or-- how do we say it?  Mind is everywhere? 2.  I s...

Recently and Soon Twice this week the feeling of someone sneaking up on me.  The feeling a ghost  got in. Conversations with friends abo...

I hope you're new , wherever you are.

So, when did my everyday face start looking like Kate Winslet's tortured face in The Reader ? There's my poem right there. 

Fine. 

A couple years ago, I found out that people don't say that " devil's beating his wife " thing outside the South.   That...

According to Wigleaf , my short short prose piece Andy was one of the top 100 pieces of very short fiction in 2010.  I'm in good compan...

by Joanna Penn Cooper and Todd Colby You are probably more special than even they remember, too, letting me breathe on your elbow f...

I'll be participating in two events this week with some brilliant musicians and poets.  Come out and see us, if you're interested! ...