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In Support of Slow Reading
My good friend Bill Logan just sent me a link to a heartening article. Here are a couple of tidbits: A 2014 study found that readers of a short mystery story on a Kindle were significantly worse at remembering the order of events than those who read the same story in paperback.Read More
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Reading on April 4 in Denver
I’ll be reading some of my poems in tandem with the most excellent Renée Ruderman on Friday, April 4, between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., at the corner of Santa Fe Drive and 8th Avenue.Read More
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From ChilePoesía 2001
Poetry readings by and interviews with Alberto Blanco, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Antonio Cisneros.Read More
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Submission…
After a long hiatus I’m back to submitting poems to journals and peddling a new book-length collection to publishers. The process is ugly, not just because it’s tedious or because it involves rejection (hell, I eat rejection for breakfast!), but because the more I read and re-read my own work the worse it looks.Read More
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Reflections on Reflections on RANE
I was fortunate in being asked to travel to Taos and join with a number of other poets to celebrate the life and work of the late Taos-based artist Bill Rane at the Rane Gallery, admirably run by his wife, Judith. The event, “Reflections on RANE,” took place on Saturday, September 22, in the Gallery itself. Each of the poets had picked a painting of Bill’s to write about—or from—or around! Anyway, the exchange of impressions was exhilarating, not least because the fine poets involved proved to be equally wonderful as people and artists.Read More