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Close Watching: Tech + Text = The Reading Paradigm of the Future?!
When it comes to good ol’-fashioned reading, the influence of new-fangled technology is rarely construed as “positive.” A recent Pew Internet Study suggests our that our brains are being “rewired” for...
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I Can Haz Earnestness?!: Anthropomorphism, Irony and Two New-ish Books By...
Animals: so hot right now. (source: mammabiscuit.com) OK, but first, full disclosure: I am a dog person. I volunteer at the Humane Society. I socialize with people I met at the dog park…outside of the...
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Rayna James Wright! And Other Sacrilegious Comparisons
So I was catching up on my Nashville the other day—and by “catching up” I mean “watching the first thirteen episodes of Season 1 back-to-back on Hulu because I’ve had the flu, OKAY?!”—when it hit me:...
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Non Verbis, Sed Rebus
My girlfriend’s ex-girlfriend recently sent me a link to an article entitled “8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need.” As is often the case with my girlfriend’s ex-girlfriend, I couldn’t quite...
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Cookbooks, Compost Heaps, and Poetry Booby Traps: A Conversation with Poet...
(photo credit: steven miller) The first poetry anthology I owned was How to Eat A Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers. The title still gives me the giggles, though my...
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The Lonesome Dove Problem
I have a problem: I’ve already read Lonesome Dove. And Lonesome Dove is the most totally absorbing wonderfully awesome novel on the planet. So nothing else really compares. Hence, my problem. I’ve...
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The Crush Problem
In my last post, I wrote about the Lonesome Dove Problem—i.e., my lifelong struggle to find a girthy novel as totally absorbing as Larry McMurtry’s masterpiece—and attempted to identify some common...
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Proverbial Feet, Herculean Feats, and a Brilliant New Blog: An Interview with...
Leah Falk and I once ran from Detroit to Canada. If that feat sounds Herculean, well, it only sort of is; in less sensational terms, we ran the Detroit Half Marathon, two miles of which are spent going...
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Storyish Poems, Poemish Stories, and Why Poets Should Love Reading Children’s...
My fellow Ploughshares blogger Caitlin O’Neil recently wrote an awesome post about all the important writing lessons she learned from reading children’s books. I was like, “OMG so true! I too have...
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Fact, Fiction, or Facebook?
Like Whitman, “I am large, I contain multitudes.” And in my case, the multitudes are on Facebook. I have eight different profiles to my name—or rather, not to my name. The characters in my harem—born...
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Poetic Analytics
Sonnet XVIII, William Shakespeare /// The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams /// Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas /// One Art, Elizabeth Bishop
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