Many years, shortly after I first discovered YouTube , which probably would have been not long before I began blogging here, I had the idea...

He is 85 years old, and one of the most famous living American poets, a vital figure in mid-to-late 20th century experimental poetics, a ...

Today would be the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the poet, fiction writer, essayist, and aesthete, who was without a...

C and I have been watching Brick City the five-night Sundance Channel documentary series Forrest Whitaker, Mark Benjamin and Mark Levin, ...

Earlier this summer I completed a revised translation of Brazilian writer Jean Wyllys's collection of short stories, Aflitos (The Afflic...

Since I'm in Provincetown for a few days, I thought I'd post an old poem I wrote based on my experiences there. It's unfinished,...

I am so elated to type these words: Natasha Trethewey has won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ! She was honored for her brilliant recent vol...

(Okay, I hope that this blog reappears after I've posted this, because I've been forced over to the new Google Blogger (after having...