The following article appeared in the Press-Enterprise, Sunday, December 6, 2015. When my grandmother’s hearing had grown too poor for the telephone, we started exchanging letters. Once a month—on the same day as the Edison bill—I’d receive a handwritten letter, pressed firmly with a retired schoolteacher’s perfect cursive, yellowed paper cut neatly from the same …
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This is the line that marks the space between what this journal used to be, and what it will be in the future. When I started blogging about the relationship between poetry and editing, I had two goals:Â 1) to demystify the role of an editor within the broader literary landscape, and 2) to become …
. . . . Born June 17th, 2010 8 pounds, 7 ounces She’s so beautiful it makes blogging about poetry seem pretty pointless. But I’ll try to get over it. For Megan’s birth story, see the baby blog.
Several people have commented recently on the subtitle of this blog: “Poetry Editor and Struggling Poet.” Tim, they say, how can you possibly be a struggling poet when you have a book that’s just been published by a good press and a full-time job in the poetry industry? Or as G. Tod Slone puts it, …
I have 12-18 months to live. Like any Z-list, fame-hungry, Plank-length celebrity, I periodically Google myself — blog search only, since web searches usually result in the same old pages — to see if anyone’s talking smack about me. What do I see today on page 1, right between my batting averages post on the …