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Tonight I saw The Interpreter which stars Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. It’s a pretty good film, better than I expected it to be, but as I watched, I found myself distracted by thoughts of Nicole Kidman’s love life. Specifically, I wondered if Tom Cruise’s constant displays of public affection for Katie Holmes […]

Yesterday my friend Erik sent me a list of his twenty favorite books. He got his inspiration from The King’s English by Betsy Burton. I copied his idea, but I limited my list to fiction — novels or short story collections. Poetry and nonfiction deserve their own top twenty. My […]

I have four poems in the fall issue of Wicked Alice, a wonderful journal edited by Kristy Bowen. The poems “Mermaids and Other Marvels of the Sea” and “Requiem for a Sideshow Attraction” both come from my carnival series.
Enjoy!

Tonight I watched Speak, the film based on Laurie Halse Anderson’s clever and engaging novel. Originally, the film played at Sundance, but it never had a theatrical release. Showtime picked it up, which dramatically limited the film’s potential viewing audience, but non-Showtime subscribers can see the film when the DVD comes […]

In a reassuring turn of events, the BBC News reported today that hobbits do not exist. This position challenges the earlier claim, made by a group of Australian scientists, that hobbits do exist.
I, for one, will follow this debate with intense interest, because I am not a fan of hobbits. […]

Well, I honestly thought Marty would be the next lead singer of INXS. I was wrong. Oddly enough, JD was my favorite contestant when I first starting watching the show. He seemed quite attractive, exactly the sort of boy I might ogle in a bar. As the show progressed, and […]

I do a lot of research for my poems. Often the facts I uncover never make it into the actual poem, but I find the research process acts as a catalyst and helps me complete a specific image or thought. Still, I find that I spend an inordinate amount of time asking […]

Today my poem “Beatification” appeared in America. It’s on page 24, and it’s printed in extremely large font. It takes up at least 2/3 of the page. I feel quite important.