May 8, 2008

Happy Birthday John!

Happy birthday to my one and only Spanish teaching, bartending, marathon running, Moby Dick reading brother. Or, as we used to screech at terrible decibels while running through the house: HAPPY BEEEEE!!!!!!  Sorry I won’t be there to celebrate tonight!

May 8, 2008

Do I Have an Aesthetic?

I was reading through a ton of submissions yesterday for the lit. mag I work on and had an uneasy realization – the poems that were stacking up in my “yes” pile all sounded a lot alike. I don’t mean exactly alike, but they did seem to belong to something of the same family. [...]