A story I’m working on for Narrative Magazine has dragged me deep into the history of Che Guevara’s disastrous final guerrilla campaign in Bolivia in 1967, and in the process I’ve started to collect a small pile of fascinating items that…

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The Seattle Weekly ran a great interview with my pal Sonya Schneider about The Thin Place, the new play she’s writing for the Intiman Theater here in Seattle. The play will open in May and will star Gbenga Akinnagbe, who played Chris Partlow…

Every era has to reinvent the project of “spirituality” for itself. If you abolish the symbols, then you tear down the walls of your own house. There is, then, a question as to whether your god is really God.

As Nietzsche says: “Our…

Right now the top 20 percent of the people have about 85 percent of the wealth. People think that they only own 68 percent of the wealth, so people underestimate the inequity, but if you ask them what’s kind…

Are there ways in which poetry could or does both exploit its own difficulty as well as its pleasures (prosodic, sensual, scenic) to maximize its potential as a unique cultural product—a “super-stimulus”—that can make us…

Number of poetry reviews published by the NYT in 2010 so far: 2

Number of those reviews dedicated to Tony Hoagland’s Unincorporated Persons…

“It’s not such a big deal if the pilot is drunk,” one representative said, according to the English-language Moscow Times, which had a reporter on board.

“Really, all he has to do is press a button and the plane flies…

The big banks, the lobbyists say, have become increasingly alarmed that the legislative process may move in unexpected directions outside their control.