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Greetings from the bucolic meadows of Pennsylvania in April

As a respite from the news, I turn to nature and books written long ago.

Before January evaporates I thought I would list the books I read last year, which I like to do because I spend a lot of time reading.

I’ve been trying to make a summary of last year without slipping into the negative, so I’d like to single out a wonderful thing that happened in 2023: my second book of visual poetry was accepted by Sarabande.

We managed to get out and see some art this year.

It’s been an unkind year in some ways.

It is a relief to forget about the apocalypse for an hour or two.

I’ve got a five visual poems from the ‘Classic Crimes’ series in the new Seneca Review. These were accepted last year and it’s great to see them out. I got to see them in the issue, my mother having forwarded one I had sent to her house. Generally when a print magazine sends me a … Read more

The first time I heard Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 was at a dance performance at Rutgers University in the late 1980s. A woman in a red velvet dress danced & tumbled through a large patch of grass laid out on stage.

Most recently, some of my little box poems were in Bluestem this month. I make these with small pharma, cosmetic, cough drop and light bulb boxes. With these, I like working with the idea of the interior landscape.