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1.  The sky is very clear today, and there are calls across the air-- a nesting bird, a leaf blower, incidental traffic sound. 2.  The...

[with thanks to Todd Colby ] Opportunities abound.  But I had rolled oats with pecans and cherries for breakfast, so I feel that I have do...

1.  I made soup. 2.  I defaced a William Carlos Williams poem.  (See below.)  I started out following this assignment by Nada Gordon to...

(after Williams) Let the snake of the mind wait under weeds, damp leaves, radiator hiss. Learn plant words.  Or better, learn the sound...

Today I learned from the life of a poet who has died.  He once accepted a poem of mine and wrote to tell me, saying, "I have a ghost ...

In the crime shows I’ve been watching, things culminate into worst case scenarios and long drawn-out scenes of broken pool ...

When you were a fetus I read everything about teaching little kids so I could be sure to teach you myself even if the school didn’t or ...

1.  I received my copy of the new issue of Ping Pong .  I have a poem in it, as part of the folio "Poetic Responses to Jean Arp's P...

I am smarter in the early- to mid-fall, so I'm waiting for that to fully kick in.  I read that scientists have found that if you want t...

You become like those with whom you associate. Back in the old days, they called children by nicknames to keep the devil from knowing wher...

I think my grandmother said that the jeans my mother's wearing were called "devil dogs."  (Is that right?)  Also, they are...

1.  Some days the East River sparkles like any other body of water in almost fall in the late afternoon.  2.  My grandmother says that wh...

1.  Last night I was re-reading Maggie Nelson's Bluets , and I realized that part of the reason I like it is that it reads like foot...

It's ridiculous.  It's like building a transistor radio.  You're the only person I know who uses Twitter, and I never understa...

(Photo: Tina Holmes) (for Andi)  This week my little brother went to a '90s party dressed in a pink shirt and faded jeans, as if...

Between the Worlds of the Tiny and the Big There's a boy in a branch library in an o.k. part of Brooklyn being tutored in math by ...

You can't get a precision grip with salad tongs, especially mine, which are from Halloween and shaped like skeleton hands.  [About using...

Come out on Friday 6/29 for what promises to be a stellar reading from poets Loren Erdrich + Rebecca Howell + Monica Hand + Aubrie Marr...