New Poems in Willow Springs and Redactions

Two of my poems are now in print, the first of the year.

"The Last Frontier is Not in Alaska" appears in Willow Springs and "Sometimes I See My Country" appears in Redactions.

New Poem at Ghoti Fish

My poem "Shock of Corn" is now available to read at Ghoti Fish.

Krishnamurti Wisdom in a Blog Format

In the last week I've pored over two Krishnamurti texts: Freedom from the Known, the 1969 classic, and As One Is, transcriptions of his 1955 talks in an Ojai, California oak grove.

He has a lot to say not only on the focusing-without-focusing of the mind, but the banality of what we've come to think of as "art" and "poetry."

Along with several other great articles from The New Criterion and others, I've published my newest blog on Fringe Magazine.

Mini-Chapbook at Six Sentences

Six poems. Six sentences each. An online chapbook program which actually turns the pages. A cover with a photo of not me, but someone who well could be. See it at Six Sentences.

New Poems at Alba

Two more of The Fire Sermons are online now at Alba.

Podcast Poetry

Thanks to Luke Lefler for recording and podcasting my recent poetry reading at the Three Friends Mondays: Caffeinated Art reading on Monday, January 12th, 09. Thanks to all who came, and thanks to Doug Marx and Andy Budor for being my "Two Friends" out of three.

Luke published a blog entry and a podcast.

A new post at Fringe Magazine: How to spot the "ravishing nonsense" in today's wonderful, wonderful award-winning and easily quantifiable poetry (Post-avant? SoQ?). Topic to consider: A.E. Housman vs. T.S. Eliot. Which one is Post? Which one School? And does any of this matter in 2009?!

New Poem at RealPoetik

My poem "The white concern of our sheet" can be read at RealPoetik. Unless you subscribe, in which case it arrives in your inbox today.

New news feed from All Voices

By invitation, I have begun writing for http://www.allvoices.com/ . You can see my first posting here.

I am a Daddy-in-Waiting: the Slideshow

My good friend Doug always told me, "If you want to change your life, have a baby." So that's what Erynn and I did. After a particularly vivid display on the sonogram, out baby's one-and-only name is "Wiggles." Look, you'll know what I mean when you have one...until then, just wait.

My wife did all the text on the photos. Happy New Year, all.

Happy New Year

And here's what I have to say about it all (IMHO) in my newest post for Fringe Magazine.