As a way of launching my new, spiffy website, I am spending the turn of the year reflecting on various artists and arts organizations who seem to me to have…
Letters From Rose
Poems, New & Old
Spring is here and I’m happy to celebrate poems new and old. My third full-length collection of poems, The Last Girl, will be available later this year. Along with it,…
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a cool sort of combination of chain letter and a “tag-you’re-it” interview game for writers. I was tagged by Nick Courtright (who was tagged by…
A Letter from Cynthia Matsakis
Anyone who knows the writer, artist and therapist Cynthia Matsakis is lucky indeed. I met her when we were both undergraduate poets at the University of Maryland, where she wowed…
A Very ASP Holiday
Well, it’s that festive season once again, and we at ASP are celebrating the end of our first year in business by decking the halls of our imaginary offices and…
On Becoming a Publisher
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…