Monday, February 3, 2020

Chapbook Project 2: January Is Over and Where Are We?

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That’s the proposed title for my album of Death Cab for Cutie cover songs. But also, how’s the poetry chapbook project coming so far? W...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Chapbook Project 1: Riddles in the Dark

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I’m making a chapbook this year. It’s January, the traditional time for new projects, and I’ve decided that this is as good an occasion as ...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Kickflips and Magic Tricks

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“No ideas but in things.” William Carlos Williams wrote that. Wallace Stevens has a similar quote, in fact it’s the title of the final piec...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

To Seem Beautiful Again, and Interesting, and Modern: Poetry in Advertising

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Nobody loves ads. Oh, sure, there are those commercials with enough cleverness or star power or humor to make you not-quite-resent them. (Th...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Old Movie Credits

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Old Movie Credits Matt Quarterman The fanfare swells no matter who lives or who dies, what explodes or is contained, red wire blue she...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

To Want to Escape from These Things

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I want to tell you about poetry and personality. There are a LOT of fun quotes from poets about poetry and what it does. (In some cases, I p...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

No Evil Star

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There’s this podcast mostly (but not entirely) NOT about U2. It features a star of NBC’s hit show “Parks and Recreation.” It’s a little pod...