Sure, you could accuse me of being late in line on the New Year’s well wishing. All those lists of the top 100 albums, top 20 books, and top 5 E.E. Cummings impersonations of 2009 have long since passed into the gray age of disinterest, true. I don’t mind if you think the wagon rode [...]

It is almost 2 in the morning, and for some reason I am wide awake. In this questionable state, I posted an older poem that I’ve never tried to publish before on Ink Node. Go check it out!

I’ve always felt that poems need to be ferberized. For me, writing is like traveling to multiple dimensions and accidentally coming back very pregnant. When the writing feeling happens, the interstellar me is whisked off to another universe. This wispy version of myself spends the rest of the poem tucking the geography (and iconography) of [...]

Yesterday, Kate and I spent the afternoon in Cannon Beach, writing at a café that kept its doors and windows open. In January. The café owner was blaring popular jazz standards, and a pair of young girls were loudly discussing the complexities of their love lives and the virtues of virginity at the table next [...]

It should be noted (for this blog) that I am a horrible speller. Worse still? My grammar. I love language, but I abhor rules. The 500 or so words that I do know how to spell can all be attributed to the scholarly skill of Mr. Gold at Woodinville Elementary School. Mr. Gold was consistently [...]

Hello, Friends. For the past five days, I’ve been here: This charming cabin is the Soapstone Writer’s Residency, a little bit of heaven tucked into the forest on the Oregon Coast near Manzanita. Last sumer, my friend Kate Lebo suggested we apply for the residency together. I agreed that this was a fine idea,  then [...]

Hello, Blogreader! Soon enough, there will be pictures of books and links to poems on these pages. For now, I’m just proud to get started. See you soon….