Influences: Duncan Kramer

I met the furniture designer Duncan Kramer at summer camp. Not as kids but as what we laughingly called leaders. … More

The Top 20 Lifesaving Poems

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems that I … More

I can remember exactly where I was when I first read these poems. It was on the balcony of the … More

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More