#AWM15: LAST POST (as in, my ostrich baby has almost hatched!)
It's almost the end of April, which means this is my last post for Lamplighter Magazine's awesome 2015 Artist Writer Mashup! Thank you to...
POEM OF THE DAY: Tracy K. Smith's "Everything That Ever Was"
I've been meaning to read Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize-winning Life on Mars (Greywolf Press, 2011) for a long time now. What was I...
#AWM15: THE OSTRICH FINDS HER VOICE
For Lamplighter Magazine's 2015 Artist Writer Mashup this week, a few more questions I attempt to answer: Do you have a (nearly) finished...
POEM OF THE DAY: Robertson's versions of Transtromer's "Calling Home" and "Mi
Today, I sat down to spend some time with the poems of Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), something I had yet to do....
#AWM15: TRANSPORTED (ON THE BACK OF AN OSTRICH)
Post #5 of Lamplighter Magazine's 2015 Artist Writer Mashup: What aspects of your illustration (large and small) transport you? What...
#AWM15 Post 4: POEM ABOUT THE OSTRICH
For my #AWM15 post for today, a few questions on my writing process so far: • How much have you written in the first week? Today,...
#AWM15 live from #AWP15
I sit near baggage claim, waiting on the lovely Emily Mohn-Slate and family, grateful for wifi and to have arrived in Minneapolis. How...
2015 ARTIST WRITER MASHUP: post #2
For our second post as part of Lamplighter Magazine's 2015 Artist Writer Mashup, we have been asked to share a bit about ourselves. Who...
2015 ARTIST WRITER MASHUP: "Why I Am Not An Artist"
Throughout the month of April, I will be posting about my process as part of Lamplighter Magazine's 2015 Artst Writer Mashup, in which a...
POEM OF THE DAY: from John Ashbery's Flow Chart
For today, a short excerpt from the very first page of John Ashbery's long poem Flow Chart (1991). While I certainly have to take my time...