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Mixed Messages 1 May 2007 | 02:46 am
I was searching unsuccessfully for a Mexican soccer match on TV one recent Wednesday evening and I found I couldn't avoid seeing simultaneous gossip shows covering the so-called story about Alec Baldw...
Poetry Out Loud 1 Apr 2007 | 02:47 am
I can't keep silent anymore; I have to blog (or brag) a bit about Poetry Out Loud, the high school poetry recitation contest that I'm involved with here in Sacramento. The brainchild of Dana Gioia, th...
Walkabout 3 Mar 2007 | 08:04 am
i haven't been writing all that much this past month, but there is some news to report: I'm going to have a broadside of 8poems about my daughter released this month. The release party and reading is ...
American Dissidence? 2 Feb 2007 | 07:12 am
I got an interesting rejection notice in the mail last week, and I thought I'd share it with whoever chances upon this blog. I'd sent a few moderately political poems about Iraq, the President etc. to...
Happy New Year? 29 Dec 2006 | 11:05 am
Well, it's now creeping up on 2007 and the issue that seems likely to matter most again this year is Iraq, so I couldn't resist offering my version of the "way forward" that Bush and his clueless cron...
Pandora's Language 2 Dec 2006 | 06:03 am
I haven't been writing much, so this morning I set myself the task of writing something that would work as a blog entry, and the only thing that seemed remotely inspiring was the list of my daughter N...
Hallowe'en Candy 2 Nov 2006 | 06:56 am
Even though I'm a day late, I've decided a poem for Hallowe'en. I guess a few apologetic remarks about the limited nature of "occasional poems" like this one would be in order, but frankly I've always...
Title Poem? 2 Oct 2006 | 05:40 am
It's that time of year again (I just got Poet's Market 2007), so I'm putting together a book-length collection of poems just in case I want to wast $300 on poetry contests this Fall and Winter (after ...
Poetry and Pop Music 1 Sep 2006 | 03:26 pm
This month I'm going back into the archives for a strange and as yet unrepeated experiment: poetry about listening to the radio (station-hopping late at night, basically). I've always been intrigued b...
Doomed Fan Letters 2 Aug 2006 | 04:41 am
Have you ever written a literary fan letter that you really, truly believed deserved an answer? Well, neither have I, but that doesn’t stop me from trying. I wrote a whiny, begging letter to Phillip L...
