Thoughts on the Exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005, 10/13/2007 to 1/13/2008, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC It has been a week since I’ve seen it, but I still can’t get the Annie Leibovitz exhibit out of my head. This comes as a surprise to me, considering that I wasn’t that interested…
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Review of Into the Wild; Matter of Taste
Getting it Right: Sean Penn’s film, Into the Wild It’s always tough to see a movie based on a book you love. Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” was my first encounter with this writer, and I was knocked out by his careful reporting and graceful, honest prose, as well as by the story he told….
Intro to In the Mix: Poems by David Pike
The following is an introduction I wrote to a terrific collection of poems, “In the Mix,” by British writer David Pike. I met David on my U.K. book tour last year – he runs a lively reading series in Swindon that I was very happy to take part in, and puts out a poetry magazine…
It’s All in the Game: My Affair with Footballer’s Wives
It’s All in the Game: My Affair with Footballer’s Wives I’d like to be able to say that it was all about being a sports fan. I’d like to tell you that I decided to follow an entire season of the weekly BBC drama, Footballer’s Wives, in order to help me better appreciate the travails…
Wrestling with Nick Hornby
With the annual AWP conference underway this weekend in Chicago, Illinois, I’m torn between wishing I was there and being glad that I can spend the weekend writing rather than managing an exhibit booth or presenting a paper. With its list of attending luminaries, the conference can be a daunting place to read one’s work….
Eight American Poets
Eight American Poets: Notes on Seminar Lyrical Intelligence: The Poetry of Linda Gregerson and Mark Doty (The last in a series of brief essays accompanying this fall’s Eight American Poets seminar at the Writer’s Center.) One of the greatest pleasures of teaching is, for me, selecting the works to be considered in a given class….