Close Calls With Nonsense

…introducing the finalists in criticism for the National Book Critics Circle this Saturday night in New York.

I’ll also be reading from my own poems with Allan Peterson, who is terrific, at Blacksmith House in Cambridge on Monday Feb. 7.

Do consider attending either event, if you’ve got no other plans.

The first issue of the new online journal Evening Will Come appears to consist (so far) entirely of a fine lyric essay by C. D. Wright: read to the end to see what she views as the primary, or most powerful, single word.