"A badly made thing falls apart. It takes only a few years for most of the energy to leak out of a defective work of art--anything slipshod, pretentious, full of lies"-Stanley Kunitz

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day! Here's a new poem I wrote for Alison, about the first moment I knew I was falling in love with her. "Love allows us to walk / in the sweet music of our particular heart."-Jack Gilbert

“I have with me / all that I do not know / I have lost none of it”—W. S. Merwin, “The Nomad Flute”

“all the flowers are forms of water / the sun reminds them through a white cloud / touches the patchwork spread on the hill / the washed colors of the afterlife / that lived there long before you were born”—W. S. Merwin, “Rain Light”

Yesterday at 7:58 A.M., the love of my life gave birth to our son, Noah Caspian Strait. We are so blessed and so in love. Our lives will never be the same, in the most amazing way.

Our little guy is exhausted! 😍😍😍

So blessed to have a prose poem in the new issue of Copper Nickel. Huge thanks to all the editors and staff.

“When my mother died, I saw myself in the mirror, her words in a ring around my mouth, like powder from a donut.”—@vchangpoet, November 2019 POETRY magazine

“After all this time, we must still love and eat, / and none of us is alone.”—@dagny, November 2019 POETRY magazine

“hello, ten course meal of my dreams that starts // with a meat platter of roasted pork, and how the guests go crazy for the abalone and swallow’s / nest soup with crab meat”—Dorothy Chan 🍒, November 2019 POETRY magazine

Hi Everyone, This is my first recording for a journal. I hope you enjoy it! So grateful. Thank you The Common

So blessed to have a poem in the new issue of The Common, one of the most consistently beautiful magazines around. Thank you to John Hennessy, @Public_Emily, and everyone at the magazine.

So glad to have been introduced to William Bronk via Christian Wiman’s “The Drift of the World” in the June 2020 issue of POETRY magazine. Here’s a stunner from their May 1955 issue:

Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone! I’ve finished assembling my first poetry manuscript and am looking for presses who charge very little to submit or don’t charge at all. Thank you for any help!

“This is the song the little mouse sings in the animated film / about travelling west” This month’s Poetry Feature has poems by Zack Strait, Felice Belle (felice belle), Stephen Haven, and Mitch Sisskind! thecommononline.org/july-2022-poet…

Glad to have a new poem featured in this week’s The New Yorker

New poem in The Common: "A Hermitage" thecommononline.org/september-2024…

the first two lines — in general, but especially growing up out of the title — of today's poem from Lee Patrick Patterson especially knocked me out, but the whole thing is stunning havehashad.com/hadposts/since…

today's short from Zack Strait is so perfectly, weirdly, wonderfully, quintessentially "HAD-y." what a gem! havehashad.com/hadposts/good-…