My sonnet “What He Said” is featured today at The Sonneteer, Ken Gordon’s fun new substack. It’s dedicated to my late colleague Michael Heffernan, who told me several years ago, […] Read more ...

Delighted to have a new poem featured today over at The Sonneteer, Ken Gordon’s excellent new sonnet-centric Substack. Whether you choose to call “Tick Tock” a sonnet or not is […] Read more ...

Looking forward to closing out another AWP with an offsite reading and party (in Charles Village, at 2640 Space) with Dora Malech and the crew of The Hopkins Review, one […] Read more ...

Pleased if slightly disconcerted to see that “The Beautiful Animal,” a twenty-three-year-old poem of mine about the possibilities and perils of new love, is the Poetry Foundation’s “Audio Poem of […] Read more ...

A recent essay of mine, “Otherwise the Same” (which appeared last year in the Poetry Foundation’s “Poets on Translation” series) has just been translated into Spanish and published in the […] Read more ...

Looking forward to reading with my former student Elizabeth Muscari and Arkansas-Tech poetry professor Tori Sharpe tomorrow at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock. Muscari and Sharpe were […] Read more ...

Delighted that one of my Umberto Saba translations, “The Closed Chapel,” was chosen by the current US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze for inclusion in Best Literary Translations 2026, forthcoming in […] Read more ...

I’m of course happy to have been selected for a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council. But I was saddened to learn today that this will be […] Read more ...

I’m chuffed, to use a word the Anglophilic Fernando Pessoa might have liked, to announce that my translation of Pessoa’s one-act “static drama” The Mariner (1915) will be out later […] Read more ...

Delighted to have my poem/adaptation “Goodbye” as the “Poem-A-Day” feature today. It’s a free adaptation of Bella Akhmadulina’s 1960 poem “Прощание,” which is probably best known in English through Jean […] Read more ...