My poetry manuscript — The Pear Tree: Elegy for a Farm — has won the 2023 Sally Albiso Poetry Award from MoonPath Press. I’m feeling stunned and honored and — even after a week has gone by — a bit disbelieving. I’ve shared here some of my process in cobbling this book together, but just […]
Lexicon: “the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge” A lexicon can be vast, but it can also be narrow and exact. Horse people have a lexicon. Dock-workers have a lexicon. Waitresses have a lexicon. My first assignment in the poetry class I’m teaching is to list 25 words relating to a subject. […]
I am teaching a poetry class — a project a LONG time in the works, by the way — and deserving of some fanfare. The class begins Friday, May 26 — two classes, sort of — one on-ground, 3:30-5:00 (at my house; there are a couple seats left), and one on-line, 11:30-1:00 (plenty of room). […]
BROWN: POEMS, Kevin Young. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2018, Luis Alberto Urrea did such a fine job capturing this book in his 2018 New York Times review, that…well…why should I even try? Kevin Young’s necessary new book of witness creates a parade through time, and I love a parade. Especially one with such good […]