“As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.”
–John Adams
“The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, [...]
Category Archives: Literature and Writing
Into the Peace of Wild Things
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Istanbul Literary Review
Thursday, April 22, 2010
New poems coming out in Istanbul Literary Review!
The journey continues…
Updates on Beggars in Heaven coming soon. Stay tuned.
Going Global
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Just got news that two of my poems have been accepted for publication in what I think is one of the finest new literary magazines in the world–Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. I am thrilled about my first international publication. Cha is one of the only literary journals in Hong Kong.
It has been my constant goal [...]
Juan Rulfo
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Juan Rulfo, one of my favorite fiction writers of all time, has the coolest website. Take a look. Then go read Pedro Páramo.
New Indie Literary Press in St. Paul
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Check out Replacement Press, a new independent literary press in St. Paul, Minnesota. I like what they’re about and look forward to following their future.
Show your early support and spread the word by becoming a fan on Facebook or following them on Twitter.
Shelf Discovery
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading.
This is probably one I should pick up this year.
Here is a helpful review of it.
Busy, busy, busy. Will blog something substantial soon (are my blogs ever really substantial, though?)…
Houghton College Fall Writing Festival
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Please come out to the Fall Writing Festival at Houghton if you can make it! Scott Cairns will be here!
“The Writer’s Journey”: Houghton College Writing Festival, 2009
Wednesday, September 16
10:15-10:55 a.m.
Chapel: Matthew Dickerson, “Lessons on Christian Ecology from the Writings of C.S. Lewis”
Location: Wesley Chapel
8:00-9:00 p.m.
Debra Reinstra, “Body, Soul, and Body: Language and Spirituality in Three [...]
Bearing the Mystery
Sunday, August 16, 2009
We are so proud of our MFA program director, Greg Wolfe, and the amazing accomplishment represented in the new collection Bearing the Mystery. The team at Image has worked hard for many years not just to consume or criticize culture but to create it. This is a gorgeous book that debuted at the Glen Workshop [...]
Sincere but Conflicted
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Man, am I looking forward to Sara Zarr’s latest, Once Was Lost. If you haven’t read Story of a Girl or Sweethearts, check them out. At my recent MFA residency at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, I noticed the young woman scanning our meal cards at the cafeteria reading Story of a Girl, and my heart lifted. [...]
2 from ‘02 You Might’ve Missed
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Has anyone else seen this 2002 remake of Dr. Zhivago? It’s very good. It originally aired as a Masterpiece Theater production on PBS in 2003.
Scottish actor Hans Matheson is terrific as the title character, finding appropriate on-screen chemistry with both Lara Antipova and Tonya Zhivago, played by Alexandra Maria Lara, a superb and beautiful Romanian actress who [...]
