Thanks so much to Stacey & David for allowing to me visit. And much thanks to you, for stopping by! For my final poem-as-text for a children’s book, I’ll go back, just a bit. Richard Brautigan’s “A Boat” (The Pill... Continue reading

“The moment one learns English, complications set in.” Felipe Alfau (Chromos) Harryette Mullen’s Sleeping with the Dictionary (Univ. of California Press) is one of my favorite books to read, teach, and recommend to children, big and small. The book is... Continue reading

“Undead, undead, undead” (Bauhaus) Recently I’ve been teaching a class that explores fairy takes, new and old. One of our texts is My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (Penguin) edited by Kate... Continue reading

A few weeks ago I finished Geoff Dyer’s Zona—a book about a movie (Tarkovsky’s Stalker) about a room. It’s a book of divine deviations. Toward the middle of the book, Dyer notes that he first saw Stalker as an undergraduate... Continue reading

Ladies and Gentlemen, in this corner, wearing the emerald trunks, the woman who made David the 2nd most famous Byrne from RISD, I give you Mairéad, the Dublin Goblin (Pangolin? Javelin? Mescaline?)! Byrne’s no-holds ars (rim-shot) is: If it looks... Continue reading

Here’s a poem by Jennifer L. Knox (A Gringo Like Me, Bloof Books & Great American Prose Poems: Poe to the Present edited by Mr. Lehman, Scribner): Hot Ass Poem Hey check out the ass on that guy he’s got... Continue reading

This week, I’ll be your llama. One of the surprising pleasures of becoming a papa to twins almost 5 years ago was discovering the menagerie of kidLit on writers, artists, dancers, and musicians. Who knew? Some of my favorites include... Continue reading