March 10, 2025

Did you miss my book launch at Next Chapter Booksellers last month? No problem! Tune in from anywhere in the universe at 1pm Central Time on March 15th. That’s this very Saturday!

Join the Zoom webinar here, no registration required.

A graphic including images of your humble author and the book cover, with a number of salient details, including the date and time of the event, which is 1pm on March 15th

I will read selections from Vessels, and maybe some other poems as well. Ana Morel, who has been studying me in captivity and in the wild for over thirty years, will host the event. She’ll ask me some questions, we’ll have a nice chat about various and sundry poetry-related topics, and we’ll take questions from the audience.

The event will be recorded, and we will post it online soon thereafter. So if you missed the first launch, and then you also miss this online launch, you will not miss out completely.

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February 24, 2025

Last, next.

108: Vintage
109: Signs of Spring (Contra Costa Goldfields)

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new

Field Notes
January 24, 2025

Twin Cities folks! Join me at Next Chapter Booksellers, the evening of February 25th, to celebrate the publication of my debut collection of poetry.

A graphic including images of your humble author, the book cover, and host Claire Wahmanholm, with a number of salient details, including the date and time of the event, which is 6pm on February 25th at Next Chapter Booksellers

Local poet Claire Wahmanholm will be there to talk with me about my book and the process that led to its composition, and we will read bits of it out loud.

Details here.

There will also be an online launch, but I am waiting to finalize the date before announcing anything. One thing I can say, though: it will happen early afternoon CST, so Europe can tune in after dinner, and Aotearoa/NZ & Hawaii can tune in over breakfast.

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January 23, 2025

There will be two book launches for Vessels: one online and one in St Paul. Both in February.

More details soon!

My copy of Vessels with post-it flags sticking out

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January 7, 2025

I deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts today, and deleted my Threads account. I wasn’t really attending to any of them anyway.

I remain at my blog, and I maintain a cool, detached demeanor at my Bluesky and Mastodon accounts. That’s more than enough.

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January 7, 2025

I’ll be one of the readers at the first NAWP event of the new year. Register here.

graphic with photos of the three poets, myself among them, and the salient details: Tuesday January 21st at 7pm EST

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January 5, 2025

Last, next.

107: Shenandoah (Maple)
108: Vintage

Two Field Notes memo books side by side: one used, one new

Field Notes
December 30, 2024

When I travelled to NYC last week, I brought Pilgrim at Tinker Creek with me. It had, once, been very important to me but I don’t think I’d pulled off the shelf in thirty years. I wondered how familiar it would seem after so long. I started it on the plane. A few days later, I arrived at this page:

Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: The old Kabbalistic phrase is “the Mystery of the Splintering of the Vessels.” The words refer to the shrinking or imprisonment of essences within the various husk-covered forms of emanation or time. The Vessels splintered and solar systems spun; ciliated rotifers whirled in still water, and newts with gills laid tracks in the silt-bottomed creek. Not only did the Vessels splinter: they splintered exceeding fine. Intricacy, then, is the subject, the intricacy of the created world.

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December 30, 2024

Omigosh, I almost forgot: I wrote a book!

And now there are a few signed copies at Next Chapter on Snelling Avenue in St Paul.

Your Humble Author signing a copy of Vessels, the bookstore in the background

Vessels
December 22, 2024

The first review has already appeared for Vessels.

I am not, of course, the intended audience and as such I find the review entirely too generous and effusive. But I do believe it captures well some of my concerns as a poet and, to some extent, my intent for the book.

Vessels