2023-01-31 📚 What I finished reading in January.
2023-01-24 The Children of Tantalus
2023-01-05 Five Years of Micro.blog
2023-01-03 Last, next. 91: Snowy Evening (15,902) 92: Kraft (graph)
2022-12-21 twenty-nine years
2022-12-16 Offline till January 2023.
2022-12-15 Now playing:
2022-12-15 A snowy morning, and a snowy day ahead.
2022-12-14 Something just happened and, honestly, it’s taken me a few days for the reality of it to sink …
2022-12-13 I spent the better part of 1992 through 1994 writing thousands of lines in iambic pentameter. Maybe …
2022-12-13 It’s a Wayne Shorter evening.
2022-12-12 “I Am Spartacus!” You know that scene where Faye is mailing letters and she hears “That Thing You …
2022-12-12 Discarded email drafts account for probably 99% of everything I’ve ever written in my entire life.
2022-12-05 Happy Repeal Day to all those who celebrate.
2022-12-02 Now playing:
2022-11-30 This morning, my mind is like, um, it’s like, oh what’s the word? Something fancy and cool. And …
2022-11-29 RIP Tom Phillips.
2022-11-28 Well. Isn’t that just some of the best news I can’t tell anyone yet.
2022-11-23 Now playing:
2022-11-21 Crescent moon through bare branches out my kitchen window this morning, unphotographable.
2022-11-20 To demonstrate what a savvy self-promoter I am, I just deactivated my Twitter account without so …
2022-11-19 Now playing:
2022-11-18 I just outed myself as someone who doesn’t like fountain pens. I’m bracing for the …
2022-11-18 Last, next. 90: Pitch Black (lined) 91: Snowy Evening (15,902)
2022-11-17 Laszlo will have to wait. Tomorrow will be beyond imagining.
2022-11-15 Now playing:
2022-11-14 We just bought our tickets for the Guthrie’s production of Hamlet in April. We’ll be preparing by …
2022-11-12 Now playing: Void Patrol (Stetson/Sharp/Martin/MacDonald)
2022-11-12 The books I brought with me, in case you were curious. (The Midgley is a reread.)
2022-11-12 My wife and I will be out running errands all morning, so — of course — I’ll have three books with …
2022-11-11 Now playing:
2022-11-10 Now playing:
2022-11-10 Covid test? Negative. Feel like crap? Positive.
2022-11-09 Now playing:
2022-11-08 The total lunar eclipse is in turn eclipsed by the solid cloud cover.
2022-11-06 Today, I had to abandon a book on a topic I’ve been obsessed with for many years. The book is …
2022-11-05 Now playing:
2022-11-04 Now playing: Esmerine, If Only A Sweet Surrender Be True
2022-11-03 Now playing:
2022-11-02 Now playing:
2022-11-01 📚 What I finished reading in October.
2022-10-31 First Halloween in our new house. Our neighbors say they haven’t had any trick-or-treaters at …
2022-10-29 It’s time once again for Twitter Replacement: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, in Two More Acts, and in …
2022-10-25 Wellstone!
2022-10-21 Nearly three weeks after bruising a rib (again!), I’m finally feeling almost normal.
2022-10-14 A Day in the Life. 14 October 2022, 07:30 CDT. Saint Paul, Minnesota. Waking up to the first snow of …
2022-10-07 NaNoWriMo? As the bowl of petunias said: Oh no, not again.
2022-10-04 Seventy-eight years ago today, one of the two men I was named after was murdered by the Nazis. His …
2022-10-02 🔥 It’s the third night in a row we’ve had a fire in our fireplace since getting it inspected and …
2022-10-01 📚 What I finished reading in September.
2022-09-26 Apparently, some foolish press has committed the grave tactical error of accepting a manuscript of …
2022-09-25 Visiting the parents last week. Remember, death is beautiful when you wear it like a maple.
2022-09-23 Just hanging out downtown with Bob. Positively… Fifth Street? Well, close enough. I’m a few blocks …
2022-09-21 Last, next. 89: Great Lakes (Michigan) 90: Pitch Black (lined)
2022-09-17 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own: …the beauty of the world which is so soon to …
2022-09-16 Lewis Thomas, “Information,” The Lives of a Cell: The solitary wasp, Sphex, nearing her time of …
2022-09-15 John Ruskin: The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell …
2022-09-14 Spinoza (trns Elwes): Men would never be superstitious if they could govern all their circumstances …
2022-09-13 Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life: Anyone who speaks of …
2022-09-12 I found this in a used book I bought recently. The bookstore is still around. (Original series here, …
2022-09-12 Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (pp 1000–01): “We will buy it all up,” making the expected arm …
2022-09-11 Something I wrote a few years ago: The Magical Powers of a New Shirt: on The West Wing, 9/11, …
2022-09-11 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: Sam said nothing. The look on Frodo’s face was enough for him; he …
2022-09-10 We attended a truly joyous concert last night. It was an absolutely perfect program for the opening …
2022-09-10 Toni Morrison (via): We have to stop loving our horror stories. Joyce’s Ulysses was rejected …
2022-09-09 Alison Gopnik (via): But here’s Hume’s really great idea: Ultimately, the metaphysical foundations …
2022-09-08 Joseph Brodsky: When hit by boredom, let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom. In …
2022-09-07 Barbara Tuchman, Practicing History: …I take notes on four-by-six index cards, reminding myself …
2022-09-06 Ursula K. Le Guin: The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and …
2022-09-05 Lewis Thomas, “The Long Habit,” in The Lives of a Cell: In a recent study of the reaction to dying …
2022-09-04 Ernie Fontaine, Lodge 49: What’s the use of living forever if you’re all alone on a Sunday.
2022-09-03 Brian Eno: With tools, we crave intimacy. This appetite for emotional resonance explains why users …
2022-09-02 Emily & Amelia Nagoski, Burnout: Science is the best idea humanity has ever had. It’s a …
2022-09-01 CG Jung: If there were no imperfections, no primordial defect in the ground of creation, why should …
2022-08-31 Always do the more difficult thing. —Wittman Ah Sing (Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey)
2022-08-30 📚 What I finished reading in August.
2022-08-30 Cold Mountain (trns Red Pine): disappointed impoverished scholars know the limits of hunger and …
2022-08-29 I’m this week’s guest on Micro Monday. I know: fifty-four minutes isn’t very …
2022-08-29 I returned the Netgear router I bought last week. Half the speed of the thing it replaced, dead …
2022-08-29 I just cancelled my Netflix account after being a member for eighteen years. The end of an era.
2022-08-29 Walter Ong, Orality & Literacy: To say writing is artificial is not to condemn it but to praise …
2022-08-28 Octavio Paz, On Poets and Others: Even “having no meaning” is a way of meaning. The absurd is one …
2022-08-27 I’ve been thinking that the most difficult thing to do is convince someone that two things — any two …
2022-08-27 Jim Harrison, The Road Home: With age one loses all sense of the supposed inevitability of art and …
2022-08-25 Adam Zagajewski, A Defense of Ardor: Some authors flog consumerist society with the aid of irony; …
2022-08-24 I stopped in at the used bookstore again today, to sell a box of books — and stumbled on another …
2022-08-24 Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars: There is no beginning, this side of the classics, to a …
2022-08-23 GK Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: The poor have been rebels, but they have never been …
2022-08-22 Jorge Luis Borges: A man sets himself the task of drawing the world. As the years pass, he fills …
2022-08-21 Caesura
2022-08-21 The essential difference between English and American musicians could be very crudely defined in …
2022-08-20 (I guess I should check my mentions more often, and maybe look into why my phone wasn’t …
2022-08-20 This just turned up in an old book. Later replaced by Borders, which also closed (sometime in the …
2022-08-20 Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow: Don’t forget the real business of war is buying and …
2022-08-19 Later is now.
2022-08-19 Virginia Heffernan (via): “Let’s get out of here” addresses itself to the anxiety of an earlier …
2022-08-18 J.A. Baker, The Peregrine: Predators overcome their prey by the exploitation of weaknesses rather …
2022-08-17 Brian Eno: Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will …
2022-08-16 WS Merwin, Introduction to Second Four Books of Poems: …poetry like speech itself is made out of …
2022-08-15 Judith Shklar, Ordinary Vices: Far from being an amoral free-for-all, liberalism is, in fact, …
2022-08-14 Today I made my first batch of Bahmi Goreng since the move. I doubled the recipe so we can freeze …
2022-08-14 Thoreau, Walden: Sunday is the fit conclusion of an ill-spent week, and not the fresh and brave …
2022-08-13 J.A. Baker, The Peregrine: To be recognized and accepted by a peregrine you must wear the same …
2022-08-12 I was thinking about the early days of blogging, and remembered an old post from 2003. I reposted it …
2022-08-12 I’ve been thinking about Micro.blog as a virtual “space” recently, and today I remembered a post …
2022-08-12 Birthday week acquisitions. Not a bad haul. (Over half were used bookstore serendipities.)
2022-08-10 It’s one thing to find a book signed by the poet in a used bookstore— —but then to notice there’s a …
2022-08-10 Thirty-five years with this machine.
2022-08-10 List #4: 1, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 45 List #5: 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 00, 000, 0000, …
2022-08-06 In light of some recent conversations regarding Markdown and Ulysses, I’ve republished some posts …
2022-08-06 Phrasing
2022-08-06 Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow: In one of these streets, in the morning fog, plastered over two …
2022-08-03 How can this pen still be writing? Where’s the ink coming from? It’s been going for over a week like …
2022-08-01 Last, next. 88: Wednesday Blue 89: Great Lakes (Michigan) Starting with Lake Michigan, since I was …
2022-07-31 🔗 Ken Knabb’s situationist archive is now housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale.
2022-07-31 📚 What I finished reading in July.
2022-07-31 The Journey to Order
2022-07-29 Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities: When human affairs reach, in truth and in …
2022-07-26 Joseph Brodsky: Pushkin called translators “the post-horses of enlightenment.” If we take this …
2022-07-26 Okay, well, that’s funny. I had six things on my to-do list today, and… I actually did five …
2022-07-26 I start each day with a long to-do list, and I end each day having done many, many things — none of …
2022-07-19 The other day, I simply couldn’t remember a certain word when I wanted to. I only remembered it …
2022-07-16 PSA
2022-07-13 spine poem #14 Against the grain — but beautiful Against the day — reluctantly seeking the cave, …
2022-07-13 spine poem #13 Amusing ourselves to death in the American tree. Out of our minds together. And by …
2022-07-13 spine poem #12 In such hard times, this is how you lose her: linger awhile under the dome, gathering …
2022-07-13 spine poem #11 come dance with me under the volcano through the eye of a needle beyond the aspen …
2022-07-13 spine poem #10 born standing up waking up american growing up absurd loitering at the mountains of …
2022-07-12 “Says I to myself” should be the motto of my journal. It is fatal to the writer to be too much …
2022-07-07 Fireflies!
2022-07-07 Franklin Avenue Then and Now
2022-07-06 Sjoelbak! A favorite game from my childhood. This house-warming gift from my wife arrived today.
2022-07-04 List #3: American Nations El Norte New France New Netherland Yankeedom Tidewater Deep South Greater …
2022-07-04 Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) 1991
2022-06-25 This just turned up in an old book. Long gone. The Aster Café is there now. (Full series here.)
2022-06-21 Do you live in Minnesota? Find out what’s under your house.
2022-06-21 Last, next. 87: Nat’l Parks (Sequoia) 88: Wednesday Blue
2022-06-17 Sharks, Desks, and Roadrunners
2022-06-17 6: Bonus! Deleted Scenes & Bloopers: Songwriting! Sylvia Plath! Bob Dylan! Cults! Hot dogs!
2022-06-17 1: Never rebroadcast since its original airing, it’s the genre-defying pilot, in which people say …
2022-06-17 4: In this week’s musical episode, Hal Holbrook, fresh off his Tony award-winning run as the …
2022-06-17 2: In this exciting episode, groundbreaking in its use of CGI, I answer the question, “What poets …
2022-06-17 5: It’s the shocking season finale! To raise funds to save our gang’s favorite hang-out from …
2022-06-17 In the spring of 2021, I participated in the ongoing — and truly wonderful — Poetry Mini Interview …
2022-06-17 A friend is having breakfast out my kitchen window.
2022-06-16 Why was he doubly irritated? Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded …
2022-06-13 A poem of mine, Time & Times, has just appeared at the always wonderful Selcouth Station.
2022-06-09 List #2 Ur, Kenorland, Columbia, Rodinia, Pannotia, Pangaea.
2022-06-01 “…hearrrrts, cluuub, baaaand!”
2022-05-26 Spiders, spiders, spiders.
2022-05-12 Ants, wasps, beetles.
2022-05-12 Foggy morning after a very stormy night.
2022-05-11 Last, next. 86: Signs of Spring (Contra Costa Goldfields) 87: Nat’l Parks (Sequoia)
2022-05-08 Happy 85th to Thomas Pynchon! I’m not going out today (too much to do at home) so here’s a photo …
2022-05-08 It’s been a busy week.
2022-05-02 From July to September 2020, I posted pictures of bookmarks I’ve collected over the years. The …
2022-05-01 List #1 5 years, 7 months 17 years, 10 months 1 year, 8 months 11 months 7 years, 1 month 9 months …
2022-04-30 Goodbye, tiny apartment.
2022-04-30 spine poem #9: hay(na)ku The widening spell of the leaves, my life corrupted into song. Pure, …
2022-04-27 spine poem #8 “Spring shade, spring essence.” Song of the departed stranger. Music, imitations, …
2022-04-26 Culture or delusion: the distinction, often, rests on how many people share it.
2022-04-25 Jewels and Binoculars
2022-04-25 Twitter Replacement: A Tragicomedy in One More Act 5 E: Ingredients are just scattered around — and …
2022-04-25 Twitter Replacement: A Tragicomedy in Two More Acts 3 Estragon: These idiots have no idea how to …
2022-04-25 Twitter Replacement: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts 1 Estragon: What a boring TV show! Vladimir: You’re …
2022-04-25 My Actor’s Nightmare
2022-04-25 Every day in May of 2020, I posted a randomly selected pair of books from my personal library in a …
2022-04-23 spine poem #7 Overtime field work, temporary help: why aren’t you at work?
2022-04-22 Hooray for a back injury that makes you cancel everything, including participating in an extremely …
2022-04-20 spine poem #6 Mermaids in the basement howl ravishing disunities. These are not sweet girls.
2022-04-16 spine poem #5 Locusts at the edge of summer, harping on all day. Permanent red blood: tin, straw, …
2022-04-15 “A mysterious leaden sarcophagus discovered in the bowels of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral after it …
2022-04-13 Rabbits, thunder, red squirrels.
2022-04-13 spine poem #4 Bedouin of the London evening, nobody’s Ezekiel, seeing things of no country I know — …
2022-04-11 A book is never more fascinating and alluring than when it’s being placed in a cardboard box to be …
2022-04-09 spine poem #3 The novice insomniac, sleeping with the dictionary, calling a wolf a wolf… My …
2022-04-08 Fox, spiders, finches.
2022-04-08 After six years on a shelf, my old Olivetti has a room of its own.
2022-04-06 spine poem #2 Stealing sugar from the castle, playing the black piano, passing through broken …
2022-04-06 Sleet, grey squirrels, geese.
2022-04-05 I first encountered book spine poems at Stan Carey’s blog, Sentence First. He’s been at it since …
2022-04-05 spine poem #1 Oceanic codes, appearing in the middle distance above the river, tug the great enigma …
2022-04-05 It’s National Poetry Month. Since I am one of the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World, I guess I …
2022-04-05 “We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each …
2022-04-02 So it has come to this
2022-03-29 Birch, crow, maple.
2022-03-28 Coyote, woodpeckers, bald eagles.
2022-03-26 For reasons that made sense at the time, I backed up all my archives, then deleted everything. As a …
2022-03-26 …we profoundly misunderstand the very nature of art when we think we know in advance what readers — …
2022-03-24 Robins, cardinals, red-winged blackbirds.
2022-03-24 We just moved into our house.
2022-03-20 I just remembered why I stopped offering free workshops years ago.
2022-03-20 Last, next. 85: Mile Marker (Arrow) 86: Signs of Spring (Contra Costa Goldfields)
2022-03-09 Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the …
2022-03-08 We just bought a house.
2022-02-16 Last, next. 84: United States of Letterpress (Full Circle Press) 85: Mile Marker (Arrow)
2022-01-17 A poem of mine, Walls, has just appeared at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily.
2022-01-14 A poem of mine, Demiurge, is available now in Issue 6 of Wine Cellar Press. It’s a hay(na)ku, a …
2022-01-14 Last, next. 83: Snowy Evening (15,901) 84: United States of Letterpress (Full Circle Press)
2022-01-01 Jim Dodge, from the Foreword, The Gary Snyder Reader: The last question came from a young man who …
2021-12-31 Henry Adams, The Education: All New York was demanding new men, and all the new forces, condensed …
2021-12-08 Last, next. 82: Pitch Black (lined) 83: Snowy Evening (15,901)
2021-11-04 Fatigue is exhausting.
2021-11-02 Simplicity is very complicated.
2021-10-18 Last, next. 81: Autumn Trilogy (Maple) 82: Pitch Black (lined) The orange was just too jarring for …
2021-10-11 Last, next. 80: Trailhead (PCT) 81: Autumn Trilogy (Maple)
2021-10-04 Seventy-seven years ago today, one of the two men I was named after was murdered by the Nazis, his …
2021-09-05 I found this in a book I just pulled off the shelf. The website is still live, mostly, but it …
2021-09-04 Last, next. 79: 50 (Grass Stain) 80: Trailhead (PCT)
2021-08-20 Bachelard, The Poetics of Space: If we were to give the imagination its due in the philosophical …
2021-08-20 I found this yesterday in, I’m guessing, the book that I bought there in the spring of 2001. A …
2021-08-03 Last, next. 78: Nat’l Parks (Great Smoky Mtns) 79: 50 (Grass Stain)
2021-08-01 A poem sequence I wrote in the late ’90s has just appeared in the newest Otoliths. Thanks as always …
2021-07-22 This morning, I went inside a bookstore for the first time since January 2020. I picked up part of …
2021-07-07 A very old poem of mine, called Elegy, was published today in the “inaugural expo” of Cool Rock …
2021-06-25 Last, next. 77: United States of Letterpress (Erin Beckloff) 78: Nat’l Parks (Great Smoky Mtns)
2021-06-17 🔗 Building Ages in NL “A Dutch data engineer wanted to find out the age of the building his son …
2021-06-04 Laurie Anderson, Spending the War Without You: I have to tell you: in theses lectures, I’m not …
2021-05-10 Last, next. 76: Kraft (graph) 77: United States of Letterpress (Erin Beckloff)
2021-04-25 Variations on the 10-Minute Spill
2021-04-15 Can Poetry Be Taught
2021-04-08 In This Version, The Suitors Win
2021-04-02 Last, next. 75: Letterpress (Genghis Kern) 76: Kraft (graph)
2021-03-28 Tales of Brave Ulysses
2021-03-28 The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But where’s the fun in that?
2021-03-25 Junk
2021-03-22 How does anyone use Markdown in Ulysses? The way it handles links, for example, is maddening.
2021-03-21 Another just surfaced. (Full series here.)
2021-03-02 And Concussion Watch ’21 begins! I’ll definitely have some bruising and stiffness, but I didn’t …
2021-02-21 The last time I was in a bookstore was 55 weeks ago. Since then, I’ve bought every book online, most …
2021-02-21 Last, next. 74: Nat’l Parks (Rainier) 75: Letterpress (Genghis Kern)
2021-01-20 Last, next. 73: Nat’l Parks (Denali) 74: Nat’l Parks (Rainier)
2021-01-19 A poem of mine, Polly, is up at Autumn Sky Poetry Daily. I was especially pleased that the editor …
2021-01-18 Here’s another straggler that just surfaced. From the same era that produced this bookmark. (The …
2021-01-09 Here’s another bookmark that just turned up. I remember it being cluttered and tousled, the sort of …
2020-12-31 A poem of mine, Thighbones, Clay, is up at Eunoia Review.
2020-12-12 Another entry in the intermittently active Bookmarks series. This is actually a receipt not a …
2020-12-05 Sixty years ago today, one of the two men I was named after — my Opa Nicolaas — dropped dead …
2020-11-26 Last, next. 72: United States of Letterpress (Starshaped Press) 73: Nat’l Parks (Denali)
2020-11-24 A late entry to the Bookmark project. I pulled a book off the shelf just now and stumbled on this:
2020-11-22 Well, it’s 8:45 on a Sunday night. Time to drink too much wine, revise old poems until they’re …
2020-10-31 How I Build Things
2020-10-22 Last, next. 71: Autumn Trilogy (Elm) 72: United States of Letterpress (Starshaped Press)
2020-10-14 A Day in the Life Minneapolis, 05:30 CDT How I begin every morning tea for her coffee and the blank …
2020-09-18 Last, next. 70: Kraft (lined) 71: Autumn Trilogy (Elm)
2020-09-11 From 10 July to yesterday, I posted bookmarks from 43 different bookstores. Sixteen of them are …
2020-09-10 And this brings us to the end of the run. I will continue occasionally posting other bookmarks — and …
2020-09-09 This version surfaced a few weeks ago, too late to be included in the original post.
2020-09-08 An excellent bookstore so richly and lovingly stocked, it seems much larger than it is.
2020-09-07 I picked up armloads of science fiction and fantasy here in the early 80s. Better selection that B. …
2020-09-06 The most recent version I have, and the last for this series. Some friends sent me an envelope full …
2020-09-04 The villain sweeps on stage and strikes a pose. We boo uproariously. He basks in it, studying his …
2020-09-03 From the last days of the Hungry Mind. After selling their name to a short-lived online school, they …
2020-09-01 This turned up in a used book I bought in Salt Lake City, or possibly Santa Fe.
2020-08-31 I wandered in during their first anniversary in May of ’96 and was instantly ensorcelled. I appeared …
2020-08-28 A bookmark labelled bookmark from a bookstore called The Book Store. Reminds me of the yellow and …
2020-08-27 I love this place. (I did a doubletake when I saw the cover of Franzen’s How to Be Alone, not only …
2020-08-23 From sometime in the mid ’00s.
2020-08-21 In the strip mall across the street from the original Cheapo. I assume it must have been connected …
2020-08-20 Exquisite used shop. An astonishingly broad selection for a place the size of my living room, …
2020-08-19 Pitch-perfect bookstore. I salute their buyers. For example, I can take in its poetry section almost …
2020-08-17 I love places like Wallace and Mercer Street to the extent they remind me of the Book House. A …
2020-08-15 From sometime in the early or mid ’00s.
2020-08-14 The Blackwell’s by the university was my bookstore during my semester in Aberdeen, but I haunted the …
2020-08-13 I found Edmond Jabès’ Book of Questions here. Yes, in a Borders. In Richfield. Right there on the …
2020-08-12 Last, next. 69: Nat’l Parks (Acadia) 70: Kraft (lined)
2020-08-12 The great Labyrinth. My favorite shop in NYC. Possibly the closest in feel to the Hungry Mind in its …
2020-08-09 From the mid-teens.
2020-08-08 Okay, Green Apple, Black Oak, then City Lights. (I was sorry, therefore, to discover that Black Oak …
2020-08-07 Love this place. A little house, with nooks and rooms devoted to different genres. In the SFF room, …
2020-08-06 I remember really liking Prairie Lights, but I’ve only been there once, passing through on a …
2020-08-05 This Borders replaced Odegards, which had held on a little longer than the St Paul store. It’s …
2020-08-04 Fantastic shop in the heart of Uptown. Everything The Strand wishes it were.
2020-08-03 This will always be the real Amazon Bookstore. Imagine the alternate universe where the venerable …
2020-08-02 Another Sunday, another Powells. From around 2011 or ’12, I think. The period has vanished from the …
2020-08-01 Hungry Saturday.
2020-07-31 Odegards at Victoria Crossing closed in ’96. (And was replaced by I wanna say an Aveda?) A few years …
2020-07-30 The erstwhile Biography, now known as Bookbook. Not sure whether I love or hate the new name. Either …
2020-07-29 No bookmark, just a business card from Biography. It was driven out by the Marc Jacobs infestation …
2020-07-28 I picked this up when we visited the USSR exhibit at Expo 86. The USSR may be gone but the Peoples’ …
2020-07-27 Almost perfect book store. Large enough to feel like you probably missed something, small enough not …
2020-07-26 Powells again. This is from around 2010 or so.
2020-07-25 It’s Saturday, which means it’s time once again for a Hungry Mind bookmark. Another tiny one from …
2020-07-24 Rounding out this NYC week is the Strand. I wish I could say why, but I’ve always merely liked …
2020-07-23 Now this is how you do a used book store. (I thought I also had a bookmark from when it was Gryphon, …
2020-07-22 Maybe it was in its decrepit twilight, but I found Gotham forbiddingly hostile and risibly pompous. …
2020-07-21 Sorry, everyone: yet another dead book store. I found this inside an older book I received from a …
2020-07-20 Housing Works is such a cool place. And possibly my favorite bookmark: good cardstock, great …
2020-07-19 For about five years, I lived an easy walk or a short Streetcar ride away from the Burnside store. I …
2020-07-18 Ah, the Hungry Mind. I started going here when I was nine to collect Tintin books. This was my book …
2020-07-16 Lovely shop. I’ve seen it turn up as a location in TV shows when they want the characters to seem …
2020-07-15 Great little shop. Perfect name for a used book store. It was in Linden Hills, next door to the Dunn …
2020-07-14 I think I must have found this tucked in a book I bought somewhere else, since I have no memory of …
2020-07-12 City Lights is a great bookstore, of course, and I try to go every time I’m in the City. But if you …
2020-07-11 St Mark’s was small but mighty. A regular stop when I lived in the gravity well of NYC. But I’m 0 …
2020-07-10 Two bookmarks that resurfaced in old books around the house. The Odegard’s at Victoria Crossing …
2020-07-09 Last, next. 68: Mile Marker (Deer) 69: Nat’l Parks (Acadia) The Acadia is yar.
2020-06-11 Last, next. 67: Wednesday Green 68: Mile Marker (Deer)
2020-05-25 Marjorie Perloff’s blurb on the back cover of Mark Scroggins’ The Mathematical Sublime …
2020-05-08 If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. —Thomas …
2020-05-07 Last, next. 66: Coastal (Chesapeake) 67: Wednesday Green
2020-05-04 Six Zoom Meetings Before Lunch
2020-04-09 Last, next. 65: Nat’l Parks (Yosemite) 66: Coastal (Chesapeake)
2020-04-04 My Plan for National Poetry Month
2020-02-22 A reminder of one of the many, many reasons why I left Oregon. From the New York Times, 21 Feb 2020: …
2020-02-18 Last, next. 64: Nat’l Parks (Zion) 65: Nat’l Parks (Yosemite)
2020-02-05 Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism » Do nothing I cannot defend. Do not distort, lie, slant, or …
2020-02-02 David Bentley Hart (via): The 2016 U.S. election proved that, even in a long-established democratic …
2020-01-06 Last, next. 63: Shenandoah (Maple) 64: Nat’l Parks (Zion)
2019-12-12 Until the End of the World
2019-11-29 Last, next. 62: Shenandoah (Oak) 63: Shenandoah (Maple)
2019-10-29 Last, next. 61: Shenandoah (Birch) 62: Shenandoah (Oak)
2019-10-21 Key Master of Brainerd.
2019-09-26 I wrote a haiku, and twenty-eight years later, I finally published it. (Thanks to @Patti for blowing …
2019-09-20 Last, next. 60: MN Yellow 61: Shenandoah (Birch)
2019-09-10 The Path to Nothing
2019-08-08 Last, next. 59: Mile Marker (Stars) 60: MN Yellow
2019-07-06 Last, next. 58: Mile Marker (Arrow) 59: Mile Marker (Stars)
2019-06-25 “Conversations” Tab
2019-05-27 Last, next. 57: Coastal (LA) 58: Mile Marker (Arrow)
2019-05-06 Last, next. 56: Wednesday Green 57: Coastal (LA)
2019-03-25 On Poetry and Bullshit
2019-03-24 Last, next. 55: Kraft (graph) 56: Wednesday Green
2019-03-10 So sorry that Sixth Chamber closed for good today. Here are two bookmarks. One is from the mid 90s, …
2019-02-21 Hannah Arendt (via): Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all …
2019-02-19 Last, next. 54: Kraft (lined) 55: Kraft (graph)
2019-02-18 Isaac Bashevis Singer (via): Of course I believe in free will. I have no choice.
2019-02-09 On Creative Longevity
2019-01-21 Ken Levine: James Garner was very self-effacing. On acting he once said: “I’m a Methodist, but not …
2019-01-08 Last, next. 53: Clandestine (A) 54: Kraft (lined)
2019-01-06 In light of the appallingly large number of unread and under-read books of poetry currently …
2019-01-04 These books arrived for xmas this year. No poetry? No. I have sixty-eight books of poetry on my TBR …
2018-12-17 Michael Pye, The Edge of the World: …We’ve seen how plague became the reason, just like terrorism …
2018-12-12 Last, next. 52: Shenandoah (Maple) 53: Clandestine (A) (I apparently missed taking a succession …
2018-10-12 Last, next. 50: Shenandoah (Birch) 51: Shenandoah (Oak)
2018-10-09 William the Silent: One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.
2018-09-19 Last, next. 49: MN Red 50: Shenandoah (Birch)
2018-09-02 Being shy, an introvert, an HSP, and having social anxiety are four quite distinct (if sometimes …
2018-09-02 On Morning Pages
2018-09-01 How Mad Men Should Have Ended
2018-08-21 Some reflections on “When Leaders become Followers”
2018-08-19 Last, next. 48: MN Blue 49: MN Red
2018-08-11 Nameless Decades
2018-07-16 Last, next. 47: Wednesday Blue 48: MN Blue
2018-06-23 Drake’s Equation & the Church
2018-05-07 Last, next. 45: Coastal (SF) 46: Kraft (lined)
2018-04-08 Last, next. 44: Kraft (lined) 45: Coastal (SF)
2018-03-28 Hello World. Afternoon light.
2018-02-27 Last, next. Kraft Lined. 43, 44.
2018-01-21 Last, next. 42: Pitch Black 43: Kraft (lined) My first Lined Kraft since the first pack back in …
2017-12-29 Last, next. 41: Shenandoah (Maple) 42: Pitch Black (new style)
2017-11-25 Last, next. 40: Shenandoah (Oak) 41: Shenandoah (Maple)
2017-10-19 Last, next/next. 39: Shenandoah (Birch) 40: Shenandoah (Oak) 40a: Dime Novel (as my “ongoing” poetry …
2017-09-20 Last, next. 38: MN Blue 39: Shenandoah (Birch)
2017-08-20 Last, next. 37: Pitch Black 38: MN Blue (Last of the original order from almost exactly three years …
2017-07-20 Last, next. 36, 37. (These are the first two of the new-style Pitch Black)
2017-06-14 Last, next. 35: Two Rivers 36: Pitch Black Fun facts: This is the last Two Rivers, and the first …
2017-05-25 Last, next. 34: Chicago 35: Two Rivers (Last of both.)
2017-05-05 Last, next. 33: Two Rivers 34: Chicago Finishing the Two Rivers early: the staples, as always, were …
2017-04-21 Last, next. 32, 33. (Only one more Two Rivers after these two… Saving one of my favorites for …
2017-03-20 Last, next. 31: Chicago 32: Two Rivers
2017-02-11 Last, next. 30: Pitch Black 31: Chicago
2017-01-11 Last, next. 29: Snowblind 30: Pitch Black
2016-12-21 Last, next. 28: Two Rivers 29: Snowblind
2016-11-21 Last, next. 27: Pitch Black 28: Two Rivers
2016-11-03 I voted! And, hey! I took some extra stickers for my dead friends. The dirty secret about dead …
2016-10-09 Last, next. 26: Chicago 27: Pitch Black (Also pictured, a black and silver Zebra Sarasa.)
2016-09-08 Last, next. 25: MN Yellow 26: Chicago (Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago)
2016-08-03 Last, next. 24: MN Red 25: MN Yellow
2016-07-08 Last, next. 23: Two Rivers 24: MN Red
2016-06-18 Last, next. 22–23: Two Rivers
2016-05-24 Last, next. 21: Pitch Black 22: Two Rivers (The previous succession is missing: 20 Pitch Black to 21 …
2016-03-30 First and last afternoons. 1 July 2011 at 1:30pm: 30 March 2016 at 2:35pm:
2016-03-09 Last, next. 19: Shenandoah (Oak) 20: Pitch Black
2016-01-26 Last, next. 18: Snowblind 19: Shenandoah (Oak)
2016-01-07 Last, next. 17: Shenandoah (Maple) 18: Snowblind (Snowblind is only a day old, but I’ve already …
2015-12-02 Last, next. 16: Shenandoah (Birch) 17: Shenandoah (Maple)
2015-10-31 Last, next. 15: Two Rivers 16: Shenandoah (Birch)
2015-09-26 Last, next. 14: MN Blue 15: Two Rivers
2015-08-15 (Feb 2021: This is the beginning of my tracking Field Notes as I used them. I originally entered …
2011-02-10 Up
2010-12-10 Friends, Spiders, Countrymen
2010-11-07 Daylight
2010-11-07 Starlight
2010-11-06 Names on the Land
2010-11-06 Rock Springs
2010-11-05 Miles
2010-11-04 We are in Salina, Kansas, hoping to make it somewhere near Denver. After a few days on the road, we …
2010-11-03 Independence
2010-11-02 Day 1 (part 2)
2010-11-01 Day 1 (part 1)
2010-10-31 We made it: we got on the road with a van packed literally to the roof. Did we say we’d hit …
2010-10-31 Sur la Route
2010-10-23 Oregon Trail 2010
2010-10-12 Hestur
2007-01-01 Quo Vadimus
2006-12-29 Shiny Things
2006-12-13 Exit
2006-12-06 Chron Job
2006-12-05 All-Night DJ
2006-11-26 “It’s…”
2006-11-25 Time
2006-10-22 Eleven Twenty
2006-09-11 Blackout
2006-09-01 A New Sort of European
2006-08-05 Stand-up Tragic
2006-07-21 We Await...
2006-06-26 Sahha
2006-06-09 Keep Cool but Care
2006-06-03 In the Zone
2006-05-19 Notices
2006-05-13 Rocketman Was Here
2006-03-24 Surrender to Destiny
2006-02-10 Have a Pancake
2006-01-30 The Midterm
2005-12-17 “This guy’s walking down the street when he falls in a hole.”
2005-08-30 Young Girls in Flower
2005-08-23 Proust Update
2005-08-08 The Plunge
2005-06-12 Poetry and Shock
2005-05-08 On the Hay(na)ku Form
2004-11-24 I have been trying for many years to move away from writing out of anger or turmoil, from a place of …
2004-11-01 Dead Heat I don’t buy it. I don’t believe that the polls are correct about the neck-and-neck nature …
2004-06-24 Empty the room to see the room. Strain against voice to discover voice.
2003-08-14 Drive my Car
2003-04-16 The Style of Their Epoch Helen Vendler in The Breaking of Style: Poets are often praised for …
2003-03-12 This Way to the Egress! Some time ago, I saw a documentary about casinos on one of those cable …
2003-03-06 The Tracery of a Pattern I am crawling slowly through Invisible Cities. It reads like so many prose …
2003-03-03 Walter Ong, Orality & Literacy: The personal diary is a very late literary form, in effect …