I want it to be spring. Spring in the north is like fall in the desert: a cause for celebration. There are only a couple of seats left in my ApiaryLit generative CNF workshop in April. If you’re stuck (believe me, I know how that feels), or looking for new prompts Read more…
I may have been struggling to write my science book, and suffering a bit from imposter syndrome there, but that is not what I want to share today. Regardless of how the last couple of months of bird writing has gone, I have really loved teaching my nonfiction workshop at Read more…
I’m still having a hard time writing this book. I wish most days that it weren’t “this book,” that I could just write without the obligation of “this book” hanging over my head. So many people have supported this book, have supported me in the writing of it. So many Read more…
It’s spring break, and in addition to other things, I’m reading poetry. I don’t really know how to talk about poetry properly, which is to say with a learned vocabulary, so I’m just going to tell you how the following collections made me feel. The Spectral Wilderness (Wick Poetry First Book) Read more…
I just devoured Jessica Bozek’s The Tales. It’s available from Les Figues Press. I am not that great at writing off-the-cuff book reviews, so I will be brief (and hopefully galvanizing). The Tales is a slim volume full of prose poems/fragments/stories that speak in a number of voices about violence, Read more…