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Category Archives: People I Know

what one dad drinks when he can’t afford vodka

Until 29 March, Ron Mattocks (or his publisher) is giving away a free chapter from his book Sugar Milk.

best author photo ever

Seriously. Scroll to the bottom.

Oasis Springs adjacent

Loose, it promptly/smothered an acre of corn.

Read “By Way of Sorrow” by Peg Duthie.

It’s like the opposite of puppies.

Read “What Shark Attack Can Teach Us About Love” by Caryn Cardello.

Time lapse painting

Gaze 1 from Jennifer Romita on Vimeo.

2009 Dwarf Stars Award Nominees

Got my contributor’s copy a few days ago and finally got around to scanning the cover for you all to see. Purty ain’t it? There’s some really excellent stuff in there, including my homegirl Peg Duthie’s “Evolution,” Charles Wright’s “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight” and Jane Yolen’s “Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff.” A [...]

The skin I regrew/after each of our trysts is now my armor.

Read “Persephone in Tel Aviv” by my homegirl Peg Duthie.

I can’t love anyone/proud of setting me up to fail.

Read Peg Duthie’s “Kol Nidre.”

duke out what history is writ

My friend Mary Alexandra Agner has a new and awesome book out: The Doors of the Body.