I’m pleased to announce the publication of Grain: the journal of eclectic writing, which features my poem “Hard to Get.”  In due time, I’ll post the poem to this website, but for now, I’m proud to be in the fine company of the poets Alissa Gordaneer, Andrew Torry, and Laura Trunkey, all with amazing illustration from Cate Francis. This [...]

I’ve started this blog.   Really, it’s just a place to shoot my mouth off.  Go.

The new Rio Grande Review hits newsstands at good bookstores in good cities this week, featuring a new poem of mine–“Cool”– that leads off the issue. Special thanks to the editors for the pride of place, and for a fine journal.  You can visit them here, or “like” them here, whatever that means.

  Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia During the Romantic Era: Charting a Motif Across Boundaries of Culture, Place, and Time is available now from Mellen Press, featuring a chapter I contributed entitled “Theatricality and Imaginative Failure in Keats.” This chapter is part of a larger project I have in [...]

 Literary and Poetic Representations of Work and Labor in Europe and Asia During the Romantic Era: Charting a Motif Across Boundaries of Culture, Place, and Time is available now from Mellen Press, featuring a chapter I contributed entitled “Theatricality and Imaginative Failure in Keats.”This chapter is part of a larger project I have in mind called [...]

  This just in: for the 2011-2012 academic year, I will be Scholar-in Residence at the University of Tuebingen, near Stuttgart, Germany.  Along with giving weekly lectures in English Literature, I’ll be doing a good deal of writing and traveling during this time.  Special thanks to the English Seminar at Tuebingen for having me (especially [...]

 This just in: for the 2011-2012 academic year, I will be Scholar-in Residence at the University of Tuebingen, near Stuttgart, Germany.  Along with giving weekly lectures in English Literature, I’ll be doing a good deal of writing and traveling during this time.  Special thanks to the English Seminar at Tuebingen for having me (especially Prof. [...]