Writing

I start to think you stink like Beowulf

I’d always been reluctant to teach online. And then I had to.

Editor of the Hudson Review

I think the joy comes out of my curiosity about the world

When I read, even my own work, I try to follow the line, its rhythms, its sounds, its inner voice

More Than a Handful is about revisiting childhood and seeing things both as a child and as an adult.

It’s all how you juggle the chaos, the strife of a circus life.

Let’s start by asking you to explain what the term “ekphrastic” means to you. Ekphrasis originally had a specific

I usually start with a single haunting image written at the top of a page.

Persephone peers out without blinking.

Backward, echoing, mirroring It is provocative to postulate

He’s seen enough of his mistress preening.