As an adult, I’ve worked in Kenya, Turkey, Yemen, Oman, Colombia, and Dubai; I’ve trekked by all sorts of dubious means through most of Africa, Europe, and South America, even darting a few times into Asia. But my life hasn’t been a travelogue. I’ve lived out globalization from aerograms to emails; that’s given me a vision quite different from many contemporary American poets.
I like what Rimbaud said: “’I’ is an other.”
Publications and Prizes
Books:
Grand Detour (Black Buzzard Press, 2007)
Journals:
American Poetry Review, Big Muddy, Blue Mesa Review, Breakfast All Day, Broken Bridge, Bryant Literary Review, Buckle &, California State Poetry Quarterly, Calliope, COE Review, Comstock Review, Eratica, Free Lunch, Freshwater, Front Range Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Heartlodge, Karamu, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Lilies & Cannonballs, Main Street Rag, Midwest Quarterly, Paris/Atlantic, Phantasmagoria, Pike Creek Review, Plainsongs, Poetry Motel, Quantum Tao, Red River Review, Rhino Magazine, Rio, Rockhurst Review, Runes: A Review of Poetry, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Tar Wolf Review, Terra Incognita, Visions International, White Pelican Review, Willow Review, Wind, Yet Another Small Magazine
Prizes:
1997: Plainsong Poetry Award
2001: Visions Featured Poet
2003: Pushcart Poem nominee
Personal Favorites
What I'm Reading Now:
Salvation Blues by Rodney Jones, Selected Poems by Louis Zukofsky, The Mediterranean and The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel, Julian by Gore Vidal, War Music by Christopher Logue
Favorite Books:
The Great Fires
A Farewell to Arms
The Enigma of Arrival
Disaffections
Among Women Only
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
The Sinking of the Titanic
The Displaced of Capital
Little-dog-of-iron
The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker
Internal West
The Man Without Qualities
Favorite Authors:
Jack Gilbert
Ernest Hemingway
William Carlos Williams
Cesare Pavese
V. S. Naipaul
Robert Musil
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Anne Winters
Philip R. St. Clair
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Listing last updated: June 12, 2011