https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html A Poem from 2012, Dedicated to Aaron Swartz Carver Cuts: Part Five Andrew Purcell, Ed. at Journal of Applied Poetics, Writes on Alexandra Teague’s “Adjectives of Order” Carver Cuts: Part Three Carver Cuts: Part Four Where’s Weldon?: The Tone of Unease in Weldon Kees’s “SUBTITLE” The Spirit of a Shopping Mall: Eric Berlin’s “Night Errand” A Few Words on Bill Knott’s poem, “INTERRUPTUS” POETRY ANALYSIS “The Mercenary’s Harp” at Open: Journal of Arts And Letters Poem from Willow Springs BIO Poems for Father’s Day POEMS Two New Poems Carver Cuts: Part One What Poetry Can Do: A Few Words on Mary Karr’s “The Patient” Poets on Politics: Frank Stanford’s “Politicians” An Old Poem from 2011 MISC. “My Wife the Tornado” Featured on The Laurel Review’s Site Poem for Mother’s Day “That Saturday Without a Car” by Stephen Dunn This Is What: Some Words on Denis Johnson’s “NIGHT” The Future Is Brilliant in the Way It Rations Suffering Carver Cuts: Part Two Duluth, Minnesota & The College of St. Scholastica’s Rose Warner Reading Series A Happy Poem: A Few Words on James Wright’s “TODAY I WAS SO HAPPY…” CONTACT A Few Words on Frank Stanford’s “NAUTILUS” Where Even Birdshit’s Beautiful: A Few Words on Hayden Carruth’s “THE LOON ON FORRESTER’S POND” The Narrative Design of Larry Levis’s “OVERHEARING THE DOLLMAKER’S GHOST ON THE RIVERBANK” A Few Words on W.B. Yeats’s “A Coat” Some Words on Emily Dickinson’s “#478, I HAD NO TIME TO HATE” A Quick Look at Octavio Quintanilla’s Poem “SONNET WITH ALL ITS GRIEF CUT OUT” When I First Fell in Love with Ward: Some Notes on Ryan Vine’s “CONVERSATIONS ON A DECK” Love Song at Closing Time: Alan Dugan’s “CLOSING TIME AT THE SECOND AVENUE DELI” So They Told You Not to Use Cliches: How Laura Kasischke’s “MY BEAUTIFUL SOUL” Breaks Rules & Kicks Ass