American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

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

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

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.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.