Intersections Investigated: Baseball-style
It’s spring, though it doesn’t feel like it in northwest Iowa. Around the country, spring sports–youth, high school, professional–are popping to life like we can only hope the trees will in time. Already we’re two weeks into the Major League Baseball season (and I’m two weeks into my annual blood feud with my wife). Just […]
The Question of Certainty
Everyone knows that if you query poets about how their poems begin, the answer is always the same: a phrase, a line, a scrap of language, a rhythm, an image, something seen, heard, witnessed, or imagined. And the lesson is always the same, and young poets recognize this to be one of the most important […]
Oh, Snap (It Gets Better)
I just published our blog about sharing the poetry-love one piece at a time: see here. But some more sleuthing on the Tin House blog reveals that they’ve taken Matthew’s idea a step further. They’re calling it “Buy One, Give One.” The details: Inspired by this challenge and in honor of National Poetry Month, Tin House Books and Coffee House Press have […]
National Share Poetry Month
In October of last year, poet Matthew Dickman advocated in this Tin House blog that we join [him] in a small, inexpensive, but possibly life-altering experiment. Over the next thirty days, let’s all buy a favorite book of poems and send it to someone who doesn’t usually read poems. This could be a family member, friend, […]
I Need It, Bad
Not too long ago I saw James Franco portray Allen Ginsberg in Howl (available, streaming, from Netflix). Apparently, according to Franco’s November 2012 post on Huffington Post (yes, I know I’m behind the times), he led a group of NYU students in a collaborative film called Tar, based on C.K. Williams’s poems. Last night my NYU graduate […]
Opening Day!
In the spirit of peaceful cohabitation in light of irreconcilable differences (Cubs v. Cardinals: Talk about intersection!)… and also in the spirit of Opening Day, here’s a photo for you. My wife and I have been together for eight years now. She’s a Cubs fan (ech, blergh, vomit) and I’m a Cardinals fan. Somehow, we’ve […]
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