Mormon Artist Magazine has published a fun interview they did with me for their current issue. I’ve not often been interviewed–just one phone interview where I wound up misquoted–so I appreciate Mormon Artist’s interest in my work and attention to detail during this process.
The pics accompanying are unfortunately not as fine as I’d like, but [...]
Over the last couple of years, my family’s home business has moved into reproducing public domain documents, movies, and other materials to sell on that juggernaut Ebay and, eventually, on our own website. Recently, I became more involved with writing auction descriptions for old films, some from as far back as the 30s. To save [...]
First off, frequent WIZ contributor Karen Kelsay invited me to submit poetry to her online poetry journal Victorian Violet Press, where I’m the featured poet for her summer issue. Victorian Violet Press also nominated “The Pear Tree” for a Pushcart Prize. Thanks, Karen!
You can hear me read “The Pear Tree” here.
Second: If you’re one of the [...]
As everyone probably knows, the winner of the Spring Poetry Runoff’s Most Popular Vote Award is Karen Kelsay for her poem, “Waiting for Spring.” In fact, Karen’s fans filled the top three spots with her poems, all of which, as I’ve noted before, have lovely minstrel qualities. “Waiting for Spring” exhibits not only Karen’s trademark [...]
I would like to thank personally each participant in the 2010 Spring Poetry Runoff Celebration. You helped make the Runoff a very successful event this year, not just for me but for readers and other participants. I hope everyone enjoyed the poetry and all-around gathering of talent as much as I did. The list of [...]
Tomorrow, at different times in the afternoon depending on what time zone in the Northern Hemisphere you inhabit, the sun will cross directly over the Earth’s equator. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, this event marks (as the calendar flies) the beginning of spring –the vernal equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s known as the autumnal [...]
I was saddened yesterday to discover that Isotope–one of my favorite literary science and nature writing journals—is falling to budget cuts at Utah State University. Here’s the link from editor Chris Cokinos announcing the journal’s demise.
Of possible interest to readers are the other magazines Cokinos mentions: Orion, Ecotone, Terrain, Flyway and Hawk and Handsaw.
Here are [...]
February is a big month on Wilderness Interface Zone. First, in honor of Valentine’s Day, all month long we’ll be soliciting poetry, essays, blocks of fiction, art, music (mp3s) or other media that address the subject of love while including references to nature. Also, we’re interested in works about nature that include references to love. [...]
As deeply as I feel the charge from hearing a coyote call close by or catching the wood-and-water chuckle of wild turkeys, as fully as wind flittering through cottonwood leaves inspires me to listen and to breathe, I appreciate the sing-sound of the well-turned human tongue.
Sometimes, in lonely canyons, when there’s no one else there, I’ve heard [...]
If you’re doing the human being thing with any gusto, you’ve more than likely experienced moments of awakening, of not only feeling more alive yourself but of feeling the lives of others around touching your life, dancing through, affecting and changing who you are, entwining into your being (you can read about some of my [...]