Spending time on Versed, Rae Armantrout's Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection. My friend Geoff Young (The Figures Press) published her first book in 1978. Thought of her as part of the Language Poets, but never could quite dig what any of them were… more »

Rain, naturally, like love, is a real beneficence to those on whom it seasonally falls—but love, when it runs the possible gamut of human emotions, and cries out its implied mission is no less than verbal cosmic detonation, becomes a thing unto itself, r… more »