Little Marvel Stove

After four years, I've decided to start up the blog again. My life has changed drastically. Social media has moved on, but still, I find...

today did a little presentation about this poem Poem As the cat climbed over the top of ...

Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds. --Wallace Stevens

"One of the rare things known for certain about Bach, who did not leave much of a verbal trail, is that in 1705, as a young man, he got...

[I just wrote this to help me think. No pressure to read it. I didn't even proofread it or worry too much about making sense.] To begin ...

From Roethke's notebooks: "An eager young coed was poised with her pencil. What is the most interesting phenomenon in American poet...

Welcome back, stove. Tomorrow I teach my second GRE class and I am actually, I think, maybe more nervous for it than I was for the first. W...

I own a business that actually does business. As suspected, my course is good. We were all tired at the end, but it is, as I'd hoped, co...

notable to me in the context of a lesson I recently received from a marketing professional. Dear Zyzzyva, In answer to your question, no, I ...

One of the nice perks of having a sister who does amazing human rights work in China is the pirated DVDs. On the cape, we started watching m...

Say what you want about Crazy Uncle Ezra [Pound], not to mention about Orientalism and cultural appropriation (all of which would be justifi...

Obviously, this here blog's magic, because since my last post TWO good things have happened: 1. Yesterday morning in the space of 10 min...

Maybe something good will happen. Has happened. Is happening. It is not impossible.

Hurricane Bill seems to have blown over. My summer class has almost blown over--only 4 portfolios left to grade and they have, on the whole,...

The red-eye's not made for sleeping, at least not when you arrive in NYC at 3 am Seattle time. In a daze I stumbled to the baggage claim...

I just met with a student who wants to "ad-hoc" my fall class, which apparently means doing more work and getting honors credit fo...

I gave this sample paper to my students today and I think they all recognized themselves in it. Imitating bad student writing is one of the ...

So I pull into Portland with a little time to spare, navigate my way to an old haunt without looking at the map, instantly find a cute littl...

This has to be one of the weirdest and most varied days ever: 1. Morning coffee and chatting with K 2. Work on op-ed about police brutality ...

I just wrote a poem about beets expressing some of my thoughts about relations between men and women.