Favorite authors:
James Baldwin (who won my then-young heart with "Sonny's Blues"), Maya Angelou, Jericho Brown, Jane Hirshfield, William Shakespeare, Kit Marlowe, Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, Matthew Edney… It’s a long list. When I’m writing fiction, I read non-. When I’m at rest, I read fiction. In the quilt of my life, poetry is a constant thread.
What I'm reading now:
Commedia (1596, Venice), in Rare Books at the NYPL by Dante Alighieri , Shakespeare and the Folktale by Charlotte Artese, Five Hundred Years of Book Design by Alan Bartram, Everyday Renaissances by Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Ledger by Jane Hirshfield, Violent Masculinities: Male Aggression in Early Modern Texts and Cultures by Jennifer Feather and Catherine E. Thomas, editors, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps by Chet Van Duzer