I found a guy online reading a poem from my second book of poetry (long out of print)!
What's even crazier is he bought the copy I had inscribed to [...]
Probably a Metaphor
The front of my house, June 2025, screened by an archway [...]
A Poem from Cathedral/Grove will be included in Best Canadian Poetry 2026. Here it is:
What I Learned from Living Abroad Wherever you [...]
A Few Thoughts About Why Writing Poetry Is Making a Life, not Making a Living
There is a longstanding stereotype of poets as outsiders and Romantic loners [...]
Toan and I spent 18 days in Italy to celebrate our 40th anniversary, a trip planned when the world seemed a friendlier place. The tension between there and here, between the past and the present, preoccupied me throughout the trip. Here’s a thing I wrote.
Festina Lente Visiting Italy is travelling through time as well as [...]
A poem from Cathedral/Grove that was published on the League of Canadian Poets website
Like Instruments When I was a child whatever I saw stirred [...]
In which for the first and only time in my life I quote “Caddyshack.”
I agreed with most of Adam Gopnik's essay in the Globe and [...]
Further thoughts about “My Place in Space and Time.”
In writing this book, I am capitulating to my life-long appreciation for [...]