Throughlines

  My default process when writing is closely akin to my process when beginning a drawing or collage. I put a blank piece of paper on the des...

  I’ve been spending a fair amount of time over the last few months reading poetry and essays by Cole Swensen. She’s the author of more than...

  What I've Learned     Alas, not much. But not nothing, either. A place to start, to begin with. Point A, as...

        This is the most recent in a long line of pen-and-ink drawings I have done over the last fifteen or twenty years. I have a particula...

            Sally Rooney has a large number of readers who enjoy and admire her work and an equally large (or perhaps larger) number of read...

    This is a series of experimental pen and ink drawings with accompanying poems (also experimental) that I've worked on over the last ...

  Inventories             An Abecedary   _______________________________________________ Earlier this year I ran across a reference to a boo...

  Recently a friend sent me a link to a poem by Mahmound Darwish . I had not previously heard of Darwish, despite the fact that he is consid...

  It has been a year and two days since I last posted something to this blog. I had not intended for it to be so long. But in my advancing o...

   I spent a significant amount of time over the last few weeks reading the novel The Deluge , by Stephen Markley. I'll say right here a...