It was Michael McClure in about 2004 who suggested I go beyond the U.S. when studying Open Form poetry. That led me to...
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Pocket Lint (A New Journal)
I have admired Warren Dean Fulton for years, maybe since I saw some of his cute little chapbooks like the U.S. Sonnets...
Responding to the Black Mystery School Pianists
I saw this article linked in an article I was reading and then a friend sent it to me, so there was something...
McClure’s Last Book Mule Kick Blues
Michael McClure died one year ago, May 4, 2020 and the last book he wrote will be launched by legendary publisher City...
Armenian Genocide
I was delighted to hear that President Biden announced that for the first time in history the United States recognizes...
The Wig Maker
How the life story of a woman abandoned by her mother and abused as a child by her father was turned into experimental...
Earth Day @ NorthWind
Has a nice ring to it, eh? Rob Lewis is one of three poets reading 7pm PDT Thursday, April 22, 2021 as part of the...
Read/Study Mackey’s Double Trio
If not the culmination of a 40+ year serial poetry effort by perhaps the world's leading living practitioner of that...
Last Year’s Pandemic Postcard (Not Yet)
My practice each morning includes reading the journal entry from the same day of the previous year. For instance,...
Wild Roof Journal Interview
I was fortunate to have been interviewed by the kind folks at Wild Roof Journal, a periodical which takes its name...
Holly J. Hughes Interview
Holly Hughes is the author of Hold Fast, Sailing by Ravens, coauthor of The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a...
Mammal Grafting
I am going to post this today though I am going to release it as a "page" or doc in Week Two of my current workshops...