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. [...]