Poetry readings come in several flavors–minty, spicy, meaty. Last evening the Third Thursday reading at Caribou Coffee in Westminster CO was of the more nourishing variety. The feature reader was Seth, that’s it, Seth. He spoke for about half of his allotted twenty minutes about the background of his new book, A Black Odyssey. I’ve been hearing…

Some of you will perhaps recall that I spent the summer writing fiction. While my back was turned, poetry ran amok, took to the streets demanding pay raises and family-leave benefits. So, I sat down this morning to file a new poem and a couple of revisions. And found chaos in the file box and…

Think that writing is a cheap endeavor? Consider some of the ways we put our money where our words are: Computers, tablets, readers, phones Wifi expenses Coffee shop “dues” Printers and ink Paper (Our paperless world has produced more paper, not less.) Pens, pencils and all that clutter in the desk drawer The desk and…