I’ve wanted to be a publisher since I was ten years old. It was then that I produced my first, very limited editions, folding sheets of construction paper into folios…
Letters From Rose
A Great Poetry Magazine Turns 120: The Poet Lore Birthday Party
Writers love to talk about what a thick skin it takes to do what we do, and how quickly inured to rejection we become. Don’t believe a word of it….
My Summer Reading
May 31, 2009 I’ve never been one for light reading in the summer. With my teaching duties suspended, summer is the time when I can read purely for myself….
How the New Age Movement Drove Me to the National Hockey League
With the National Hockey League kicking off its All-Star Weekend today in Montreal, I’m feeling sentimental about my own introduction to the great game of hockey, detailed below. I originally…
Books by Grace Cavalieri and Sam Truitt
On Sunday, I had the pleasure of introducing two great poets in a reading at the Writer’s Center: Sam Truitt, whose most recent collection, Vertical Elegies, is really three books…
A Great Big Mind and an Even Bigger Heart
A Great Big Mind and an Even Bigger Heart: David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008 It has been a month since David Foster Wallace took his own life, but the fact…