Any Common Desolation

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look up at the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the … More

Another Loss to Stop For

Another Loss to Stop For Against such cold and mercurial mornings, watch the wind whirl one leaf across … More

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More

Bike You, who have borne three sons of mine, still bear my weight routinely, transporting me. An odd … More

Today I have published a new Archive page on this blog. It contains links to all of the blog posts … More

As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See … More

To celebrate what I now think of as James Schuyler day, I am reposting June 30, 1974. Happy … More

and (Dear James) it occurs to me now, just thinking out loud, that in a way Kenneth and Frank … More

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ‘poets I go back to’ idea, that I first came across in … More