Sidewalk Ecology

went out in the rain 

this morning to observe

the tidepool sidewalk

Reading on Sunday Feb 10th!

There will be a reading from my 

new short story collection

THE WONDERFUL STUPID MAN

on February 10th at 7 PM in the 

Wilson Library at 

Western Washington University

foggy morning

 

A foggy morning at work

always reminds me of that

great Frank Sinatra song

"A Foggy Day in London Town..."

book of the week

I'm loving The John Lennon Letters

edited by Hunter Davies (2012).

I'm reading it on the bus, on break 

and any chance I get during waking 

hours.

mountains this morning 2

 

the view this morning from work

Patchen on the Move

Kenneth Patchen in Old Lyme

late 1940s

Kenneth Patchen with nephew

in San Francisco, 1953

These photos will appear in 

the newly revised biography 

of Kenneth Patchen, Rebel Poet

by Larry Smith (Bottom Dog Press)

reading next week

The Clover accepted a poem of mine

and I'll be joining them next 

weekend for a reading

new little poem book soon

I'm working on a new little poem book

using these photos Rustle and I took

in the woods near our house

where we often see deer

just read

I just finished reading Knute Skinner’s amazing memoir, 

Help Me to a Getaway (Salmon Poetry, 2010). It’s 

always heartening to see someone with the guts to 

make it as an artist. Those parts with his Dutch girlfriend 

urging him to get a real job were pretty insightful. 

He stuck to his heart and put art first. VERY hard 

to do…Now I’m reading his poetry book, 

What Trudy Knows. It’s like a short story collection. 

Best of all, it’s got me back in the poetry zone too 

as I work on putting together a new big collection of 

my own poetry.