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  • Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!

    August 26, 2011

     Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white…

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  • Sunday, September 4: BAP 2011 Showcase at the AJC Decatur Book Festival with David Lehman, Kevin Young, and Natasha Trethewey

    August 26, 2011

    Sunday, September 4, 2011, 3:45 – 4:30 PM at the Decatur Presbyterian Sanctuary Stage. Details here. 

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  • Identifying Beyond the MFA: the Value of Writing Communities

    August 26, 2011

    To blog is to post to a community, so I thought for this penultimate entry as guest blogger I’d start there, with the value of sharing our work and thoughts about writing with others.…

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  • Goodnight, Irene!

    August 25, 2011

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  • “Play that Funky (Iranian-American Music) Wine Boy…”

    August 25, 2011

    After finishing a review of Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati’s new translation of the modern Persian poet Sohrab Sepehri’s long poem Water’s Footfall, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Iranian culture’s long…

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  • Dear Rilke . . .

    August 24, 2011

    via Austin Kleon  — sdh

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