Old Ask a Poet Column
I hate living in Los Angeles, but I’ve been told that my film career will be best nurtured here. Another place calls me home, where I might suffer for my …
Ask a Poet
What do you tell parents of would-be poets who worry about their children’s ability to make a living writing sonnets?— Your father, Sierra Vista, ArizonaP.S. Do you want me to …
The Impracticality of Poets
I identify myself as a poet because I can’t do anything else. Really, I’ve tried. My journey to find a marketable skill took me all the way to Uzbekistan with …
On the Great Silk Road
“The angels out there,/ what are they?” Stephen Dunn, “Between Angels” One of the few Peace Corps pamphlets I ever read came to my home in Arizona about three weeks …