Welcome to my studio, where I post regular updates on my work and contemplate the art of writing. Drop in to say hi and to see what writing challenges I’m working through… or what victories I’ve claimed!
- Burn-out & the Zone May 8, 2013 For many unestablished artists, the business of staying alive and attempting to provide for the future can be so exhausting there’s little strength left for the exercise of one’s art, especially if you think of your art as work (which, in some sense, you need to, if it is ever to become anything mor...
- A Defense of Poesy for Poets March 1, 2013 Students in a poetry workshop recently asked me some questions about publication that led us to an unexpectedly detailed discussion of the low demand for (and inordinate supply of) poetry in the current, American, literary marketplace. They asked me pointed questions about my own relative rates of s...
- Dick Versus Luke February 8, 2013 I enjoyed recycling Moby-Dick chapters into “haiku” so much that I’ve decided to do the same to chapters from another American bible… The King James Version of the Bible. Though I was prepared to modify my technique for the new text, I’ve found myself falling “comfortably” into essentially the same ...
- Writing as Ecosystem January 30, 2013 I am often struck by the similarities between biological and cultural reproduction, how genes and memes reproduce themselves with or without our conscious assistance, how, for example, a concept or phrase can spread through a population’s cultural psyche in much the same way that, say, the ability t...
- The Case for Cannibalism January 3, 2013 I’m speaking, of course, of cultural cannibalism. The results of it are most apparent in music, where the artists seem to have a keener taste for the “flesh” of their forebears, and have already led to the healthy tradition of sampling that has been driving music industry capitalists and copyrighter...
