2016-05-17 22:01
Just posting here to let anyone know (whoever is still dropping by from time to time) that I still haven't disappeared, I've just been spending time away from the computer and the internet f… Read More
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"And, in the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."
-- Arthur Rimbaud
2016-03-19 18:53
Among the various things I've been reading lately is Elegies by Muriel Rukeyser (a new edition published 2013 by New Directions; originally published by New Directions in 1949). The book is… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Poet Bill Knott died this past Wednesday March 12 at age 74, following complications from surgery. I first read a few of Bill Knott's poems in a paper handout in a poetry writing class I was… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Last month I got an e-mail from poet friend Julia Stein, who was taking part in a kind of chain blogpost passing from one person to another. The idea is for each writer who's takin… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I went to the annual AWP conference in Seattle this past week. The conference took place from Thursday Feb. 27 through Saturday Mar. 1; I flew out on Wednesday the 26th and flew back to… Read More
2015-04-05 15:35
Again I've been away from this blog longer than I'd intended. Much busy with writing, and reading, and life in general.I'll be attending the annual AWP conference this year, this coming week… Read More
2014-12-28 03:18
This past fall I read Petrified Time by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Martin McKinsey and Scott King, published in 2014 by Red Dragonfly Press. This is one of the strongest translations of Ri… Read More
2014-07-02 04:08
I've been away from this blog longer than I'd intended to be -- I've been caught up in daily life stuff again, and doing much reading in "spare time." One of the books I read this past sprin… Read More
2014-04-16 02:03
Here are a few paragraphs from the British Marxist art critic John Berger, from his essay "A Professional Secret," in his Selected Essays published 2001 by Vintage Books. Berger talks here p… Read More
2014-01-05 01:56
Poet friend Julia Stein has written a review of my recent book All Through the Night: New and Selected Poems. The review, which is generally enthusiastic, is published in the online literary… Read More
2013-12-14 01:45
Secret Traffic: Selected Poems by Roy McBride has been published this year by Nodin Press in Minneapolis. (The book is distributed by Itasca Books -- their webpage for the book is here.) Roy… Read More
2013-08-25 01:34
A couple of poems of mine have been published in the online magazine Blue Lyra Review, here.The above link is to the page with my poems. To check out the other fine poetry in the current iss… Read More
2013-07-17 04:18
For those of you who come by here from time to time, I haven't disappeared, just laying back a little during the summer. I'll be back soon. One of the things I'm currently reading, and that… Read More
2013-05-18 02:25
During the past month I read Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems by Tom Hennen (published 2013 by Copper Canyon Press). I very much like the book. I took my time reading i… Read More
2013-05-11 03:24
Linking here to an article I liked by Keston Sutherland in the Tumblr blog A Flying Fiery Roule, titled "Theses on Antisubjectivist Dogma."The article is an effective and articulate cri… Read More
2013-04-14 23:38
I've just read The Mississippi Book of the Dead by poet friend Timothy Young, a book consisting of one long poem, published 2013 by Parallel Press.Like much of Tim Young's poetry that I've r… Read More
2013-03-25 00:38
The online poetry magazine Pemmican has published a review, by poet John Bradley, of my book All Through the Night: New and Selected Poems. The review is here.My thanks to John Bradley for t… Read More
2013-03-14 02:28
I went to the annual AWP conference last week, which was in Boston this year, March 6 through March 9. Here's more or less what's floated to the surface a few days afterwards. I didn't take… Read More
2013-02-16 00:21
My new book, All Through The Night: New and Selected Poems, has been published by Red Dragonfly Press.The book includes a generous sampling of my poems covering about 30 years of work… Read More
2013-01-13 02:59
Wally Kennedy, one of my early poetry teachers, died this past Thursday morning January 10, at the age of 84. Wally lived a long and robust and creative life, and he touched the lives of&nbs&hell…Read More
2012-12-18 02:49
Found an article I liked on the killing of the children in Connecticut this past Friday. The article, in the website of CounterPunch magazine, comments on the underlying culture of violence… Read More
2012-11-19 00:28
To anyone who comes by here from time to time, I haven't gone away -- I'm in the middle of proofreading the galleys for my next book, All Through the Night: New and Selected Poems, to be pub… Read More
2012-10-04 02:25
This past weekend I attended this year's Albuquerque Cultural Conference, which took place from Friday September 28 through Sunday September 30. Once again it was a shimmering exciting three… Read More
2012-09-17 03:35
This past summer I've been reading the Collected Poems of Naomi Replansky (published this year by Black Sparrow Books, which is now an imprint of David R. Godine, Publisher.) These are poems… Read More
2012-09-15 23:57
Typing a test post to see if the new Blogger user interface is working properly on my blog now.Testing the font change function here. Testing the bold and italic functions here.Testing the l… Read More
2012-07-21 01:15
I received the following today in an e-mail from poet friend Terry Hauptman -- Terry asked if I'd post it, and though the news is sad, I'm more than happy to post Terry's words here.From Ter… Read More
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