HAPPY POETRY MONTH! Back in 2018 I posted a clip on here of a young performer, Orlando Watt , on YouTube  performing a snippet of my poem ...

The Translation Project's Black History Month tweet, from February 21, 2021,  highlighting my essay "Translating Poetry, Translatin...

The sign outside Drawing Rooms' former site Note: Originally I had planned to post this in June, but life intervened, so better lat...

When journalist Nicholas Carr’s  The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains  appeared in 2010, I remember exchanging emails w...

The old Shakespeare & Co. on Broadway (via Yelp) Independent bookstores in New York City  and elsewhere experienced a fatal period...

A page from the George  North manuscript that starts the poem about Jack Cade. The last stanza lists terms for dogs, which Sha...

Counternarratives originally appeared roughly two years ago in hardcover, and since then has received a host of reviews, on these shores...

All of these photos are courtesy (©) of C. Enjoy! The poets at the end of the reading, Piedimonte Etneo Yours truly With Joseph...

While out in Los Angeles  last week to read at the Otis College of Art  I had the pleasure of visiting Venice Beach , which I hadn't se...