Archive for July, 2014

On the Prairie

July 13, 2014 9:37 pm | No Comments

Last October, I had the great pleasure of visiting Kansas State University, where I sat in on the graduate poetry workshop, met with graduate student poets individually, and gave a reading. (I also slept in the renovated ranch house out on the Konza Prairie, where the night is brilliant and immense.) I was a student in that very workshop–taught by that very Elizabeth Dodd–in 1997. It was …
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Cutting Back the Overgrowth

July 12, 2014 2:13 pm | No Comments

Somehow, the world seems to have chugged along without incident in the year and a half since I last updated this blog. This isn’t the first blog I’ve let go to seed–the world is also managing in the absence of my pseudonymous commentary on the Pittsburgh Steelers–and I suspect that the internet is littered with abandoned blogs, relics of a time when their authors tended them carefully, the dates …
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