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  • Encouraged by Artichoke Heart: TEN YEARS AGOIt’s my freshman year of college. I have a roommate from South Dakota who smells funny at night. I meet a lot of people and for the first time since age 12, I ask people to call me Charlie. I love living in Minneapolis because I’m finally not living…

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  • Grass

    When I was in college, Gap started selling its first four fragrances: Om, Earth, Day, and Grass. They were strange smells, really—Earth was, well, earthy; Day was bright and citrusy; Om was sweet and spicy; and Grass smelled like (yes), cut grass. At the time, I fell in love with Om. It’s still one of…

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  • Epiphanies

    Oh, crap… Did I do that or did I think about doing that? *pieces together events of Saturday night*

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  • Chapbook Update

    Good news! The first issue of Red Mountain Review has returned from the printer and will be available for purchase in about a week. Please support this new journal (and my chapbook) by purchasing a copy for just $6. Thanks!

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  • Dear Blogging Friends,

    When you post the code to make music videos appear on your blogs, it makes my browswer freeze and crash. 😦

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  • Yo, Collaborate and Listen

    Last night at Kris Sanford’s MFA show reception, I was especially pleased to finally set eyes on both the completed version of our artist’s book Stolen (with poems by Matthew Heil and me) as well as the final version of our broadside, The Aerialists: This is one example of how wonderful collaboration can be. When…

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