Last weekend at the Washington State vs. Arizona football game my younger daughter got a hold of the camera and took a series of self-portraits. Enjoy!

I’m still trying to get the video converted of this year’s haunted garage (Haunted Pirate Ship theme), so until then, I’ve posted a series of 58 photos in my image gallery, and a half-dozen images below: The underwater room; the first room you enter. Next: the headhunters island. Then, the witch doctor’s cupboard. And across [...]

Last night we hosted Civano’s Spooktacular Halloween Party and Haunted Garage (Haunted Pirate Ship Theme), and we had about 150 friends and neighbors stop by for tricks and treats. I didn’t take very many photos, and I hope to post a video of the haunted garage a bit later, but wanted to throw a few [...]

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, a Tucson-based online journal that examines the interface between the built and natural environments, is holding its first-ever issue launch and reading. This celebration of the “Borders & Bridges” issue (No. 24) features readings by contributors Christopher Cokinos (Hope is the Thing with Feathers and The [...]

I just got back from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment biennial conference in Victoria, British Columbia. It was a great conference in a stunning location! Below is a sampling of the 137 photos available in my site’s photo gallery. You may also wish to view the ASLE blog entries I posted [...]

I’ll be over at the Terrain.org Blog for the next week blogging my trip up to Victoria, British Columbia for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference. Check out the first post at: http://terrainorg.blogspot.com/2009/06/asle-conference-review-day-0.html And follow all the entries at http://terrainorg.blogspot.com/. Hope to see you there!

I’m heading up to my old stomping grounds this week for a reading as part of the Copper Nickel 11 Release Party: http://www.copper-nickel.org/11/ Get the details at the link above and join me for a little prose, poetry, and good company at the great redevelopment that is Belmar.

I’m reading on Tuesday evening as part of the Edge Reading Series at Casa Libre here in Tucson, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Details here. Won’t you join me? Here’s my reading list: Indigo Buntin Friday Afternoon In May I Consider My Websites Amazon.com Her Mission of Light Angelfish Wild Mint Coyote Shine Home and Back [...]

I’ve just finished reading Paul Muldoon’s Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and I have to say that, mostly, I just don’t get it. Which brings me to a larger question that’s always swirling in my mind when I think of verse: How does one decide what good poetry is? I [...]

As if this hasn’t dragged on long enough, I have some final AWP bits: Images from “The Future of Environmental Essay” panel, Terrain.org 10th Anniversary Reading, and Salmon: A Journey in Poetry Anthology Launch & Reading are now online in a gallery at: http://www.terrain.org/img/gallery/index.html I ate insects at AWP. Specifically, for a free one-year extension [...]