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  • I Wish I Were…

    …a Graphic Designer. I have the utmost respect for the people who can communicate text and graphic with startling clarity and artistry. This past week, I purchased Chip Kidd’s retrospective of his book cover designs and I thought, What a lovely career to stumble into. Like Kidd, my adolescent doodlings were rarely ever pictures, but…

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  • TNHR

    I really love this poem.

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  • This made me laugh like a crazy person. I particularly enjoyed what happened to “Readings & Events.” Try it with your blog!

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  • A Statement of Poetics

    I want to do something that means something.

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  • Conventional Wisdom

    “All poets are either obsessives or hysterics.” —Robert Hass

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  • Coming Soon

    Next week, in honor of Ron Silliman’s Project Runway post, I’m going to do a week-long series of posts about The Jobs That Got Away—or, more succinctly, careers I wish I would have considered taking on when I was a little younger.

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