Imagine the dumpsters in the photo above on fire, and you’ve got a good depiction of what the past year has been for a lot of us. On this last day of 2017, I: went to Open Books and read a poem. While I was there, I bought a poetry book (Plainwater, by Anne Carson), [...]
As we head into the final month of this dumpster fire of a year—all feast or famine, with bouts of depression, more car problems, having to rebuild my website, and general disgust with the state of the world—I need to step back for a moment and reflect on the things I was able to accomplish. [...]
