The Preamble In the reckless Boy Scouts of America days of Portland, Oregon, I drank heavily. I drank heavily for a number of reasons. I drank because I was out in the bars night after night being social with the twentysomethings of my neighborhood. I was looking for sex, IContinue Reading
Somehow, in both my memory and in my semi-conscious thought, I feel the winter nights are long, really long. This is a mix of reality, imagination and that for many-many years, I have slept late and worked nights. To me, my life has been mostly night and for some reason,Continue Reading
A 2013 reading wrap-up I spend Sundays with Mark Dragotta. If you don’t know Mark Dragotta, you should. And should you want to meet him, I recommend Sundays and you can find us at 501 16th. On a Sunday afternoon a few weeks back, Mark was sitting at the lastContinue Reading
Sometimes, and it’s generally in the more extreme of circumstances or emotions, I have to ask: “why didn’t I do this before?” Of course, oftentimes I’m saying this sort of “why did we not do this before?” to Janice. Case in point, I play with my son everyday, all tooContinue Reading
I have never been one to begin a new year with a list of resolutions. I think it’s a bit cliché, and it’s a difficult thing to do. After all, I could say that I want to be healthier or have a better diet or make the bed every morningContinue Reading
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Kindle digital file. Carrol, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass. Kindle digital file. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Kindle digital file. Whithaus, Melanie. Enigma. 2013. Whithaus, Melanie. Motherhood. Kindle digital file. Dickinson, Emily. The Laurel Poetry Series. John Malcolm Brunnin, ed. Dell: New York, 1960. Bartholomew, Mel. Square FootContinue Reading
I first met Melanie Whithaus in March of 2012 when we ran her poetry in Umbrella Factory Magazine. Her poems in UFM’s Issue #9 where her first publication. In the last year and nine months this poet has had many other magazine publications, two chapbooks and has become an editor ofContinue Reading
Available HERE Enigma is slim volume of 12 poems by Melanie Whithaus. When it came to me, by mail on that hot-end-of-summer September day, I was immediately drawn to the cover photo (also by Melanie) of raindrops on a window, possibly a windshield. These raindrops gave me the feeling ofContinue Reading
Available HERE On my first day of graduate school, I could hardly contain my excitement. It was a cold Vermont January. The Goddard College campus was not only very far away from my home of Denver, Colorado, but it was nearly foreign when compared to my daily existence. And theContinue Reading
Available HERE One of the editors of Lenswork magazine, Brooks Jensen, explains in issue #107 (July-August 2013) “Problems with a pile of prints.” Jensen explains that photographs, piles of them, present a problem simply because there seems not to be a “finished” project. Dipping further, it’s simply this, a vastContinue Reading