Are you willing to pay to submit your poetry online? C. Dale Young wants to know: http://avoidmuse.blogspot.com/2010/07/poll.html

It’s never too early to get the word out: Birds and Poems: A Poetry Workshop with Simmons Buntin and Eric Magrane [view flyer] Mondays, February 28 through April 4, 2011, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. — except no class meeting on March 14 plus a field trip on Saturday, April 2, 7:00 am to 11:00 [...]

Zebra Question by Shel Silverstein I asked the zebra,Are you black with white stripes?Or white with black stripes?And the zebra asked me,Are you good with bad habits?Or are you bad with good habits?Are you noisy with quiet times?Or are you quiet with noisy times?Are you happy with some sad days?Or are you sad with some [...]

I recently stumbled upon the Beagle Project Blog at http://thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/, which is the blog portion of The Beagle Project at http://www.thebeagleproject.com/. The folks behind the project say: We aim to rebuild the ship that carried Charles Darwin around the world, starting in Darwin’s bicentenary year of 2009. The new Beagle will sail the world in [...]

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 [...]

Charles Darwin is known more for his detailing of finches on the Galapagos than of his work with hawks (if any), but hawks and Darwin are on my mind this week and next. First, we had a Cooper’s hawk visit our yard the other day: He started at the bird feeder, which I had just [...]

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 [...]

We’re celebrating in Arizona like it’s 1999, or rather 2009, the year the Arizona Cardinals finally make it to the Super Bowl. In honor of that momentous occasion, and because I doubt that many poems have been dedicated to that, or any, football team, I present one of my favorites, from my teacher so many [...]

Lamium by Louise GlückThis is how you live when you have a cold heart.As I do: in shadows, trailing over cool rock,under the great maple trees. The sun hardly touches me.Sometimes I see it in early spring, rising very far away.Then leaves grow over it, completely hiding it. I feel itglinting through the leaves, erratic,like [...]