HOW WE ARE.

News from Mulligan Hollow for My Mother in a Memory Care Unit in Waukesha, Wisconsin An early spring in a year without much winter. Here...

“How are you?” A friend asks me in the grocery store, and I panic behind my floral mask. “We got a puppy!” My answer doesn’t fit his...

The sky’d been falling slowly for several months. We didn’t need the chicken to confirm it. Every day another 50 or 80 feet closer and...

Dear World, I write to you on Day 56 of Quarantine. What “Quarantine” means has shifted slightly, as Utah moved last week from Red to...

How am I? Well, this forced isolation is doing funny things to me…in a Twilight Zone amusing sort of way. Most folks would label me an...

How am I? Well, after a brief hospital stay, I spent the last three months learning how to read again. While I’ve learned an awful lot...

Most mornings I tuck my pants into my socks and walk to the back of our small acreage to the canal. The banks have been taken over by...

Murder Hornet, 11"x 14"  acrylic,  charcoal  on canvas Untitled, 10"x 10" acrylic and charcoal on canvas 12 to 18 Months, 10"x 10"...

“Those your house shoes, right?” “Yeah.” “You left the others outside the front door?” “Of course. It’s starting to look like a mosque...

How are we? We are great. During this time of isolation, my wife, daughter, and I open our doors and, some days, hike up onto Solstice...

I suppose I’m fine, thank you. How else to describe a morning in which I listened to “The Well-Tempered Clavier” in its entirety,...

Dear Anna, I am so jealous of you for being out in the woods! We have been pretty much not leaving the apartment at all. Now that the...

How are you? Is probably the most complicated question I can be asked today. How am I? I don’t know. Maybe you and I can jump on Zoom...

Dear Mg, this is how it is: My sister cut my hair.  I trust artists.  About ten minutes ago, my hair was down my shoulder-blades like...

I don’t know how to tell you how I’m doing, but I can tell you what I’m doing, and one of those done things is one my favorite things...

Dear Matt, This is the exact kind of note I needed today. I'm going to go teach my evening Poetry class for the next 3 hours on Zoom (we...

Hi Nik! It was so good to see you at the most civilized/weird AWP ever. I felt like we were at some strange river-oriented Texan theme...