the lion sun

It's been a long time since I posted here. But the death of Mary Oliver, and the many posts on FB and elsewhere mourning her passing, ha...

Exciting and even a bit strange to see Ellen Bryant Voigt, the paragon of formal control, symmetry, and the tight metrical line, produce a b...

Robert Frost's sonnet "Mowing," from his first collection, A Boy's Will , is one of a subset of his poems that focuses on ...

M. and I are to become grandparents for the first time, early in January.  This little poem arose a week or two back.  Thanksgiving seemed a...

I woke at three last night (not an uncommon occurrence) and was struck by how quiet it was. The weather being warm as it can be in December ...

It's happened again. Ten years after my first book, A Small Fire , was published, a new one, As If , is out. As far as productivity goes...

For the last several months I've been finalizing the content and ordering of my second book of poems. The publisher has it now; it'...