Notes & Essays

When I say the word infrastructure , what do you imagine? Huge concrete highways, towering steel skyscrapers, the city bus? These are...

These 2 projects have been the start of my 2024 Poetry Postcard Fest. I had figured doing a bigger project or 2 and then cutting them...

https://youtu.be/iiNdrDx_FL0?si=0zB1w4BBlDrHBxY9 Recently, I was lucky to work with a man in my neighborhood who considers himself an...

This will be my second foray into a collection of poems inspired by a musical album. The first was a response to the Beatles' Sgt....

Good Autumn Postcard-ians and non-Postcard-ians alike, I wanted to share a few thoughts on this summer’s fest and, finally, the final...

If you haven't read The Lonely Hearts Show yet, you should check it out before you read this. You can find it under the Poetry section of...

It happened! As the Poetry Postcard Fest approaches, the universe has bestowed me with a gift. The winter ‘97 issue of The Kenyon Review,...

I would like to take this space to do two things. One: reflect on lessons from last year’s fest. Two: set some intentions for myself for...

Suspension of disbelief - the temporary freezing of your standard logical framework, usually in order to appreciate (understand and...

My purpose for rewriting Olson’s Projective Verse essay is twofold. One, to make it an inclusive essay as opposed to exclusive. Two is to...