I’m very pleased to have a poem of mine—a ten-part sequence called “Staring Back at Us”—included in Lines in Long Array, a gorgeous anthology commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civll War. Beautifully conceived by editors David Ward and Frank Goodyear and exquisitely illustrated with Sally Mann photographs, it was published by Smithsonian Books and launched in November at the National Portrait Gallery. Read more ...
I contributed ten or so translations to My Poems Won’t Change the World, an excellent selection by editor Gini Alhadeff of poems by the Patrizia Cavalli, one of my favorite contemporary Italian poets. Read more ...
Welcome to my new and improved website. My thanks to web designer extraordinaire Johnathon Williams for putting it together. Johnathon is also a terrific poet—you should check out his fine first book, The Road to Happiness, about which Katrina Vandenberg says: “These poems are to Arkansas what Robert Frost’s poems are to New England.” Read more ...