>Descant

>I recently acquired [gleefully picked up along with about 25 other copies of various journals off the freebie table at the Indiana University Writers’…

>LitMag Wave–July 2006

>Now that I have the politics out of my blogging system for a little while, it’s time for another LitMag Wave. Thanks to overall…

>Happy Birthday America

>I’m not running for political office any time soon, but today seems like a good day to think about where I stand on ten…

>Writer’s Little Instruction Books

>At the Green Valley Book Fair today I came across three little books by Paul Raymond Martin [and, just as an aside, that link…

>A Sunday Miscellany

>China World Hotel. Did you see the New York Times today? At left is the cover of the Magazine section, showing congested traffic in…

>Lay on, Macduff!

>To be honest, the production of Macbeth I saw last night at the American Shakespeare Center was not the best I’ve seen there. Maybe…

>Beltway Poetry Quarterly

> “The DC Places Issue of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, an on-line anthology of poems that celebrate Washington, DC, by naming specific sites in the…

>Liam Callanan at Blackbird

>Check out the audio reading by Liam Callanan at Blackbird “A Reading by Liam CallananOn April 19, 2006, novelist and writer Liam Callanan read…

>Workshop Season

>As Writers’ Conference Season gets into full swing–and I’m participating in a few workshops this summer–I’ve been thinking about how to deliver (and receive)…

>In the Yard

>I don’t write poetry. Some of my ultra-short fiction, however, bears an uncanny resemblance to poetry, and one of those pieces (“Hemlock”) is included…