Good Times

I should have mentioned this earlier, but I’m the featured poet this week (or maybe last week at this point) in Santa Cruz’s indy web weekly, The Good Times.  Browsing around, it’s a nice publication, and makes me wish I lived in Santa Cruz.  Of the five poems, a few are already available on this …

A Request for Interview Requests (plus 2 notes)

We’ve have some unfortunate scheduling issues in the last few months, and have had to postpone a few planned interviews, so as soon as this winter’s conversations with Robert Pinsky and Natasha Trethewey come out, we’re tapped. With the way the production schedule works, I really need to arrange interviews with at least two poets …

Sundry Strings

I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed this week (a hundred emails and bucket of envelopes every day will do that to you), so while there are plenty of things I’ve wanted to post about — including our new Poet Laureate, who I love even though I think it’s about damn time for Marvin Bell to …

Tadpoles

I think tapping off a quick post before hitting the sack is starting to become a habit. Maybe a good one. Anyway, since I’ve been so dedicated to upgrading and maintaining the Rattle website for the last two years — and maybe because I just like stats — I’ve become obsessed with monitoring referral data. …