I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!