A SHORT STUDY ON TOUCH
If you’ve spent any amount of time with me, you know I value touch. No opportunity is missed to hug, squeeze an arm, run my fingers...
- Sep 30, 2019
- 3 min
BOOK REVIEW: EMILY SKAJA’S "BRUTE"
Brute, Emily Skaja, Graywolf Press (2019) Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Joy Harjo ...
- Jul 29, 2019
- 4 min
WHAT YOU SAY DOES MATTER
STICKS AND STONES AND STRESS GENES The days of “sticks and stones” are largely past us. Words now have the capacity for much wider...
- Apr 25, 2019
- 2 min
CONCERT REVIEW: BAYONNE
The Back Room at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro is typically mellow, but the night of the Bayonne concert felt especially sparse. Midway...
- Feb 25, 2019
- 2 min
HOW PUNK MAKES ME A BETTER WRITER
Growing up near Cleveland, Ohio gives me a predisposition for things of a darker matter. Home to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a river...