End of year lists! As if I'd forget to post this. (though I seriously debated whether or not I should do it this year, in all honesty. my love of routine and tradition won.)
BOOKS
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter
My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Black ( Read more... )

Another year, another April full of poems gone gone gone. I admit this year was a little harder than previous years - I'm not sure why? but it was harder for me to pick The Right Poem every day, and more often than not I felt like I was picking them out of a (80 page long) hat. But there were definitely some good ones. And there are many, many more ( Read more... )

Small Comfort Coffee and cigarettes in a clean cafe ( Read more... )

At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal Schoolthe football field rises ( Read more... )

from Hölderlin Hybrids: In a Doorway

Monet writes a friend he’s painting “the instant.” Succession stopped at success. A light his palette gives off. And color subdivided into into. On the retinal surface. Ground so fine. In each ray of light. Move motes of dust.

-Rosmarie Waldrop

Sleeping Trees

Between what should and what should not be
Everything is liable to explode. Many times
I was told who has no land has no sea. My father ( Read more... )

Ragged IslandThere, there where those black spruces crowd ( Read more... )

Tim Riggins Speaks of WaterfallsYou want to know what it was like ( Read more... )

Percy, Waiting for RickyYour friend is coming, I say ( Read more... )

For a Coming ExtinctionGray whale ( Read more... )