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Brooklyn morning, 10 a.m. writing project a car alarm somewhere on the block behind a quasi-desperate tiredness I look at the job ads an...

I have been following the blog of Bhanu Kapil .  She says things like this on her blog: Teaching has a lot of shakti.  Writing has shakti...

Last night as I came back out of Penn Station after teaching poetry in New Jersey, I saw Jesse Eisenberg ride by on a bike.  Where were you...

[Under the High Line is where I ate lunch with some of my family; my brother met up with a "couple friends," and I walked the...

I tried to read Ammons years ago, and didn't get it.  But just today, I get him, like him. This is just a place.

My friend J. Hope Stein, a wonderful poet, has a blog here .  Be sure to read About her and to watch the excerpts from her short film , ...

Yesterday I took a cab to a 9/11 memorial poetry reading (because the two subways I needed to get there weren't running), and everything...

1.  Ten years ago, it was a beautiful day in Philadelphia. 2.  The tv in the English Department hallway at Temple.  Lyn Tribble saying, ...

I am pleased to have a piece of writing up over here .  Thanks, Everyday Genius people!

Perhaps this drawing parodying pre-Raphaelitism will have a cheering effect.  (Punch Magazine, 1866)

Today I wrote road rode the bus to Montclair, NJ to fill out my HR paperwork.  I am teaching one class there this fall.  (American Poetry ...

1.  I'm excited to have a poem in the recent issue of South Dakota Review . 2.  Another piece is forthcoming (next week!) in Everyday...

source: http://ibc.lynxeds.com Me:  Look at that person.  That ibis.  That egret thing. Mom:  That's a sandhill crane. Me:  I...

"Another one of Bill's weird birds.  Bill likes birds.  [shrug]" "I'm glad you're getting old.  Otherwise you...

I got a few things done in my new office.  Here it looks like that shrinking hallway from Willy Wonka. And I bought this minimalist bouquet...

(for Todd Colby ) 1.  Todd Colby goes, "I read an article in the New York Times that there are more ghosts reported in Brooklyn than ...

I have since childhood been sleepy and loved and trying to work it out A friend calls and I report on my eye circles He says, I thought...

Radiant child.

The new place is starting to get arranged. If you ignore those two end tables that don't go there.  And the lampshade with no base.  An...