Writing Blog

Friday April 12 at 6 p.m., 20+ poets will be reading poems in response to art at the Portland Museum […]

Once again I am reminded of the interconnectedness of everything. (mixed elements: string, paper, botanicals, oil/acrylic, on board)

I’m a finalist for the 2015 Maine Literary Awards in short works for both nonfiction and poetry. The winners will be announced live Thursday 5/28 at Space Gallery in Portland. If you’re in the area, come celebrate—with all of us. The slate is strong across the board this year—great writers, intense work, and some fabulous humans. Doors at 6—event at 7.

Saturday, April 4, 2015     POETS/SPEAK!   I’m reading shortly after noon at the University of Maine Museum of Art, downtown Bangor. 

Not too many places left in which you actually have blackboards and chalk, but Saturday I found myself giving a

Some poets laureate take their jobs pretty seriously—see themselves as providing for the bigger good of connecting the works with

My ideal elementary-school curriculum would… require all children to learn: (1) the times tables up to, say, 25; (2) a

Ann Patchett: in the church sanctuary in Belfast: with my dear dear friend Harold: rain lashing the luminous windows: strip