Can you LouReed this?
I’m particularly interested lately in what it takes to finish something, being, myself very good at starting things, but less equipped when it comes to signing off on something. So […]
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The Pamphlet Stitch
I find that I’m often wanting to show people how to sew a pamphlet binding so i thought I would gather together some resources here. I first learned this stitch
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Glow at the Extremest Verge: An Evening with Mark Doty
Saturday, July 21, 7:30pm San Francisco Zen Center City Center 300 Page Street, San Francisco Patricia Hampl, in Commonweal, writes that Doty is “poised on exact perception. When he sees the
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And then a Plank in Reason, Broke: Memoir & Uncertainty
I’ll be teaching an all-day workshop July 14 in the new Memoir Journal Workshop Series. The workshop takes place from 9-5 in Berkeley at Art Jam, Suite E, 725 Gilman St. Includes
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All is Full of Millions
I mentioned earlier the pause in which a listener tries to take in the magnitude of what’s been said and recalibrate their world view as to accomodate this more millions
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People actually in the same room talking about anything, and especially poetry, is very millions
There are few things more millions than limbic resonance, that “symphony of mutual exchange and internal adaptation whereby two mammals become attuned to each other’s inner states,” that happens when
The Feast of Losses: Writing into Transience
Choosing poems for today’s workshop on Poetry and Death – and when is poetry not in some way speaking through death – has been, er, so much fun. People who
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Bioluminescence is Very Millions
If you can see by the light of your own body, you’ve clearly got a lot going for you. These anglerfish on the page below, from Sir D’Arcy Thompson’s ecstatic natural
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Working into the night is very millions
Making whatever adjustments necessary so you can do your work under less than perfect conditions is very millions. Goya didn’t sit around waiting to have perfect lighting. He mounted candles
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Who would have the millions to see it?
One way we can understand more about millions is to use it in place of other words, as in this quote from the end of Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Gilead: “It
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