This is an intro I wrote for a panel discussion that I moderated last September: “Why Do We Have Poetry…
Kathleen Rooney & Writers’ Loyalties
Is anybody following Kathleen Rooney’s situation? I felt legitimately shaken up earlier this week when I found out Kathleen (I…
For those of you with students of the creative writing persuasion…
Please tell them about the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts. This is the best summer writing…
Art as Inheritance, part 1: That Lingering Smile
This will be something of a long and meandering trip, only to wind up back where we started. But I…