Full disclosure: I'm not a great fan of poetry. There are those poems, often read long ago, that have embedded themselves in my mind, whose rhythms come to me at the oddest times. They're a motley lot. Some of them, like Chesterton's "Lepanto" or Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," I … [Read more...]
“What Is Grass?” Walt Whitman, Mark Doty, and the Student
I’m back from the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Last Wednesday I had the honor to deliver their annual “First Book Talk” on Journal of a UFO Investigator. I now have a few new books, a lot of new friends. One of these friends is the remarkable poet Jeff Gundy, a professor … [Read more...]
