It is January second, 2023. As I type this, my dogs are barking at a fevered pitch. I can barely concentrate. I am dissuaded and...

Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis The first Cavafy poem I read, I copied and pinned to my refrigerator. At the time I knew nothing of this...

If the external authority is weak, it is not possible that the internal authority is strong. One is a reflection of the other. In other...

Dearests, I came to teaching late, explaining time, spent seeking, away by saying I was trying to find, first my purpose and then, my...

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather...

Dear young poets, The following is an excerpt from an essay I wrote about my writing experience. The words still ring true to me. In a...

The body is a remarkable experimental space where contradictions are resolved. Delicate and Resilient. Sensitive and Impervious. Blood...

I listened to a podcast about a woman who could not remember whether a sexual assault event, that may or may not have occurred when she...

There is antipathy towards telling, yet that’s what words do, poorly sometimes. Words name, name as verb, in order to get close to the...

I am honored to to know these humans. Breaking virtual bread with them will make your life richer. Being in a writerly space with them is...

Who decided bird was more important than lemon was more important than nest was more important than yellow? Who decided that fill would...

It was an honor to BE with this incredibly gifted and accomplished group of artists. I watched as they worked through the craft and...

Flaubert once said, “Art is not reality.” I understand him to mean that art is never meant to provide answers, rather he believed it to...

The world is old enough and young enough to realize the nature of organic forces. Minutes pass by in one form of enchantment and not the...

We can always be more or less isolated by how much we focus on isolated fragments of time, as if much of life isn't spent enduring and...