LoveSettlement

My usual lunch hangouts were closed today so I tried a Thai place I haven’t eaten in in years. That turned out fine. The sun is out but a co...

Back in October I commented on Ron Silliman’s blog, responding, as one does now & then, both to what Ron had said and to one of the earl...

I recently joined Facebook. I’ve had a couple reconnections that have been good. One was with a colleague on the staff of Berkeley Poetry Re...

Christmasy? The versions of this poem were all written before I posted the first one. I haven’t done that before. No one had a chance to com...

Ever more beautiful wounds the diamond burns. But the stitchers thread a cure for this gap. The river wavers because the viewer wobbles? The...

Should I send this to Slate when it’s done?

Ever more beautiful wounds the diamond burns. But the stitchers thread a cure across the gap. The river wavers? Because the viewer wobbles, ...

Beverly Backstrom was another of Mom's old buddies. I like this one because it is just a nicely written dispatch from travel. You don...

Most of the poems I’ve versioned on LuvSet have been old old poems. The first version of this one is quite new. Usually I do a new version j...

From above, the diamond burns ever more beautiful wounds, the stitcher's thread a cure for the bright act. The river wavers because the ...

Among the material I brought back from my mother's house was a box of postcards. Most of them are blank. A few aren't. This one is f...

“Hell it is, Pop” is a piece written on top of "Elegy, Father's Day" By Kevin Young, which appeared at Slate .

From above, the diamond burns its look into ever more beautiful wounds, the stitcher's thread curing the bright act. The river wavers be...

Rained yesterday & through the night. Kent wanted to see the new Coen Brothers movie, No Country for Old Men , but it’s not playing in B...

All the way and in the way and thus the way evades the way the way a nay will turn away the daily tray of pales applied to knights and faste...

Suppose a rough gust tucked into his guts and the roomy tomb, vacated by a spoon, cuts a figure of rust. Suppose what?

Today at the Spice of Life Festival (they closed down the street two blocks away) Kent & I watched a cooking demonstration. The chef of ...

ENDA is the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that's before Congress. Its purpose is to outlaw employment discrimination on the basis of...