Well, it seems that I’ve written a poem for the first time since 1997. While fourteen years between poems might not seem like much for some, for someone who wrote poetry all through college, has an MA in Creative Writing, and two Academy of American Poets Prizes, fourteen years is a really long time.…
Today is Bruce Springsteen’s 60th birthday and readers of the blog and my Twitter followers know that I am a huge fan and in a few days will be presenting a paper at the international Springsteen Symposium. My paper is investigating the literary tradition of supermarkets in terms of Bruce’s new song, “Queen of…
Those who follow my Twitter stream know that I have been working on a play. I started on it toward the end of August, 2008, writing a variety of scenes in no particular order or overall understanding of just what the play was going to be about. I had lots of ideas, so I…
Very quickly, from The Chronicle of Higher Education (some comments later in the week when I have a chance to relax a bit): I strongly recommend the Chronicle Review‘s Architecture Issue (March 9, 2008), with which I am just getting started.