Territory Fever Part II – the Rodey-Coddington Connection
Minnie Coddington was elated. She had won permission from her father, working on his good nature over time and despite …
Category Archives: Poetry
Requiem for a Book of Poems, and Why I’ve Been Thinking About Suicide
I wonder how many of us, in these very dark times, have felt the toxicity of the oxymoronic Trump presidency …
US Out of Afghanistan Now, and Why There Are Stars….
If we had a candidate for the Presidency who promised to end the war in Afghanistan in the hours after …
Dispossession and Transcendence: A Reading of Sky Thick with Fireflies, Ethna McKiernan
Sky Thick with Fireflies Ethna McKiernan Salmon Press 2011, Ireland Many years ago, when I was in an informal writing …
Read It and Weep—He Liked My Work, But I Balked at the First Jump in the Editorial Olympiad
“Thanks for contacting me, redacted. There are in fact, numerous celebratory poems in the revised collection–in each section– that move …
New Poem: Requiem for Rist Canyon
As of this post we hear that over 190 “structures,” principally in Rist Canyon, have burned in the High Park …
New Poem for Memorial Day and Beyond: A Rumor of Uranium
No one disputes that our fallen are heroes. But war itself is not heroic. This memorial day I have chosen …
Art’s Real Price: Merely, Martyrdom…
Naturally writing only rises to the level of art if it radiates the craft and language we associate with literature. …
“You Write Like An Angel”…. Notes From A Dark Horse
I admit it. I am sitting on my best manuscript, holding back from sending it out into the void. It …
Adrienne Rich: Visionary and Matriarch
Early on, Adrienne Rich’s work indicated a burgeoning voice and powerful sense of craft: Back in the typed line was …
