I have started a blog called DON’T FOG THE FEELERS with fellow Write Bloody poet Michael Roberts.
The idea is for us to just go wild, feel a pulse, write the pulse.The words can swim in cyberspace and later, if we want to go back and edit and brush the poems off and sew them up [...]

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One evening, I wondered if you’d not be coming back here. Here is where I have been, three years on our birth month. I am sitting down or walking slowly. Lately reminding myself go easy. I think all about this place as I go. Strange thoughts of New York, thoughts one oftentimes can’t sort out [...]

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It’s been snowing. My land is like a broken pony. It begins to silence itself and stays behind the fences with huge whiteness. When the sun breaks in through the silken black  trees, the snow from the past three days hits one with a huge blinding Pacific Northwest explosion of gorgeousness and rebirth.
And when one gathers all [...]

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Hello New York!
I am back in Brooklyn, after having spent the past four months in Portland, OR, working on my new book, The Exploding Pen. Boy, do I ever have stories.
Please come out & help me celebrate NYC with the Write Bloody man Derrick Brown. He’s got an amazing new book coming out, SCANDALABRA, and [...]

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Greetings, Portland friends.
I’m out here, working on the new book, The Exploding Pen, going nuts! Come out and see me this Friday (November 7) at The Funky Church. I’m doing readings with the fantastic folksinger from Philly, Denison Witmer. The show also will have performances by Day of Lions and Kelli Schaefer

 
Some more great news: [...]

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Meaghan hugged all that booze, behind the bar in the diner, as Nina sang about doomsday. I called my older sister on the phone– the Angel– kept chewing the food in my mouth and took another CHOMP, not thinking she’d answer.
She didn’t, and I felt sad.
Sometimes, a writer seeks nothing more than to be invisible– [...]

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