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On Thanksgiving
The evolution of an ambivalent holiday.
Dec 11, 2025
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A Reading & Conversation, November 9 in Catskill, NY.
I'm reading at the Beattie-Powers House in Catskill.
Nov 3, 2025
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A Summer Update
Mary Ruefle at Poets House; MFA & Summer in Vermont; A trip to the Lucie Brock-Broido Archives
Jun 25, 2025
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The Condition of Poetry at the End of the World: Part Three
The I is a Lie; That’s Too Bad; Our Organizations Need Us; At Least Be Free In Your Poems; On Voluntary Servitude; Give Yourself Away
May 8, 2025
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The Condition of Poetry at the End of the World: Part Two
Famous Mushroom; Upon What Meat Doth This Our Caesar Feed?; To Work Is to Live Without Dying: The second installment of the talk I gave at the Vermont…
Apr 30, 2025
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The Condition of Poetry at the End of the World
I recently wrote and delivered this talk at the Vermont Studio Center about poetry and the role of the artist at this moment in time. I'll publish it…
Apr 28, 2025
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An Interview
Ann van Buren of the Katonah Poetry Series asked me some question prior to my reading there on May 4.
Apr 18, 2025
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From the Archives: An Introduction of Jorie Graham
I was asked to introduce Jorie Graham at the 92nd Street YMHA in 2017. Here's what I wrote.
Mar 25, 2025
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Christmas Is Over
According to the liturgical calendar, the Christmas season officially ends February 2nd, on Candlemass. While it was harder to celebrate this year…
Feb 21, 2025
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Publication News!
A new book of poems forthcoming from Graywolf Press: MATEY
Feb 18, 2025
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Some Spring 2025 Events
I have a few events shaping up in coming months. Come say hello!
Feb 17, 2025
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The Posthumous Self: Poet as Clairvoyant
The text of a lecture I gave at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in August, 2024.
Feb 15, 2025
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On The Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, by Susan Bernofsky
A talk given at Columbia University on the occasion of the publication of Bernofsky's biography of Walser, Spring 2021.
Jan 31, 2025
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I Am My Own Imaginary Friend
On Mary Ruefle's Erasures
Nov 4, 2024
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