Equanimity

2013-10-07T09:27:00.000-04:00

My poem, "Kale," appears in the October 14, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.

2013-08-30T15:48:00.004-04:00

My poem "How To Be A Lawyer" is the Poem-A-Day poem for August 30, 2013 at Poets.org.

2013-07-01T09:14:00.000-04:00

My review of Lucille Clifton's Collected Poems and Charles Rowell's anthology Angles of Ascent is live at The Nation.

2013-05-24T10:22:00.002-04:00

Three poems in The Nation's Spring Books issue: one by Elizabeth Arnold, one by Nathalie Handal, one by Alison Stine.

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Incidentally, The Hat will be relaunching in September. Whatever it says on our site, we're reading submissions now: submissions@hatpoetry.com.

2013-04-09T12:12:00.003-04:00

I'll be part of a reading of poems by Joseph Ceravolo on April 17 at 8 pm at the Poetry Project.

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Judith Harris's poem "Neighborhood" and Christina Robb's poem "Now That April's Here" appeared recently in The Nation.

2013-04-01T09:32:00.001-04:00

I'm reading my poems and speaking about editing poetry as part of the Westchester Poetry Festival at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY on Saturday, April 6, 2013.

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C. Dale Young's "Instructions from Lazarus" appeared in The Nation earlier this year, as did Grzegorz Wróblewski's "What Did Clausen See" (trans. Piotr Gwiazda).

2013-03-11T13:27:00.004-04:00

I'm reading my poems and speaking about editing poetry as part of the Westchester Poetry Festival at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY on Saturday, April 6, 2013.

2013-02-28T08:52:00.004-05:00

I'm reading at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center on Friday, March 1 at 7:30 pm. The HVWC is located in the Philipse Manor Railroad Station on the Metro-North Hudson Line.

2012-10-02T13:48:00.005-04:00

Two more poems at The Nation lately: Brian Blanchfield, "Superfund" Andrés Sánchez Robayna, tr. Jonathan Mayhew, "The Open" * Rodney Koeneke, whose "slow poem" appeared in The Nation last year, reads my chapbook as part of the annual Attention Span gathering. It's a really good reading, and I'm in entertaining company (if you haven't read Dana's book why are you surfing the web? get to it). Thanks, Rodney.

2012-09-11T11:27:00.001-04:00

This blog began ten years ago today.

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There were some poems in The Nation this summer:

Susan Wheeler, two poems from "The Split"
John Godfrey, "Tiny Gold Dress"
Rae Armantrout, "Holiday"
Lawrence Joseph, "Syria"

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I have the poem of the day over on the Academy of American Poets site for today, September 11, 2012.

2012-09-07T14:34:00.004-04:00

There were some poems in The Nation this summer:

Susan Wheeler, two poems from "The Split"
John Godfrey, "Tiny Gold Dress"
Rae Armantrout, "Holiday"
Lawrence Joseph, "Syria"

As in, some poems.

2012-07-12T12:00:00.002-04:00

Two new poems in The Nation this week: "Flow Dynamics" by Elizabeth Arnold and "Of Time and Intensity" by Peter Cole.

2012-07-06T11:18:00.003-04:00

I wrote a three-part review of the fourth book of poems by a medical doctor in his early 40s. Promising young writer -- something might come of him. The first piece is live at Constant Critic.

2012-06-29T12:53:00.000-04:00

Peter Cole's poem "Tutelary" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-05-31T11:35:00.001-04:00

David Dodd Lee's poem "Recipe" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-05-30T10:08:00.000-04:00

2012

5.

Mark Wallace, The End of America, Book One (Dusie)
Buck Downs, New Material (s/p)
Angela Veronica Wong, How to Survive a Hotel Fire (Coconut)
Michael Collier, An Individual History (WWNorton)
Tina Fey, Bossypants (Little, Brown) [2011]

2012-05-15T16:57:00.001-04:00

I'll be reading for In Your Ear at the DC Arts Center in Washington on Sunday, May 20 at 3 p.m.

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Two poems by Merrill Gilfillan are live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-05-11T14:05:00.003-04:00

Michael Casey's poem "funeral coffee tea" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-05-07T12:32:00.002-04:00

Yannai's poem "Leviticus Again," translated from the sixth century CE Hebrew by Peter Cole, is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-05-02T08:33:00.003-04:00

I told the Wall Street Journal what I thought (more or less) about Mayor Bloomberg's poem for Poem in Your Pocket Day (subscription required).

2012-04-19T09:55:00.002-04:00

Darcie Dennigan's poem "The Drought" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

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Also, I'll be reading with John Godfrey in Wendell, Massachusetts on Monday, April 30 at 7 pm.

2012-04-18T11:38:00.000-04:00

2012

4.

Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Sleep With One Eye Open (Nonesuch) [2011] 
Philip Larkin, Required Writing (Michigan) [1999]
Joel Lewis, Surrender Upon Leaving Coach (Hanging Loose)
The Louvin Brothers, Close Harmony (Bear Family) [2002] 
Lorine Niedecker, ed. John Harkey, Homemade Poems (CUNY Poetics / Lost and Found)
Behind Pay Walls
Bill Berkson, Costanza (Blue) [2010]
Lewis MacAdams, Lyrics (Blue) [2009]
Kevin Opstedal, Maybe Ocean Street (Seven Fingers) [2009]
Joel Sloman, Off the Beaten Trakl (Cy Gist) [2009]

2012-04-12T12:28:00.000-04:00

I'll be reading with John Godfrey in Wendell, Massachusetts on Monday, April 30 at 7 pm.

2012-03-29T08:32:00.003-04:00

John Coletti's "I am not myself" is live at The Nation (subscription required).

2012-03-22T10:25:00.001-04:00

Ange Mlinko's poems "Azure" and "Cicadas" are live at The Nation (subscription required).