Critical Essays

On A Ghost Has No Fantasies

Poetry is an act of witness. An act of witnessing the world, language, the self,…

The Glory of Love

When I was a young man in high school, you believe it or not, I…

Poetics of Place #1: Pahrump, Nevada

I drive slowly on the shoulder of HWY 160, thirty miles west of Las Vegas,…

A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World

This is, by my count, my third gathering of essays and reviews. And I noticed…

The Wildest Things

Every summer we burn. I’m ten, and the large wide ditch outside our house in…