The 4 emotional stages of the Iowa Writers Workshop, summer session: EXCITEMENT - there's always so much excitement to joining a new group, especially when I go to an exotic place like Iowa City! HAPPINESS - downtown Iowa City is awesome. Lots of restaurants, lots of cafes, several gyms, a few...

Songbird Sounds His girl is a sooty hearth; Igniting her jaw, he wishes her well. Her teeth less restrained than the soil that chokes him, She'll move to sedate him until rage screams, far pent. But she'll claim a mountain for him, Turning fingers to fists at lowly peaks. She blows grains from the...

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note By Amiri Baraka Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog. Or the broad edged silly music the wind Makes when I run for a bus... Things have come to that. And now, each night I count the...