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Why is it that each day the task of changing C.'s diaper feels more and more like wrestling a jellyfish? No. Less a jellyfish (too passive) than a seagull or something prone toward flight...

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Arrived via mail: Devotions (Bruce Smith), Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (D.A. Powell), Snuggle Puppy (Sandra Boynton)

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It's lights out at Hayden's Ferry Review, whose editors seek poems and stories that take place in the dark. The Chattahoochee Review, meanwhile, wants all things Irish, while the good folks at Ecotone are on the hunt for writing exploring the "abnormal."

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Someone emails to say my book is on SPD's recommendation list. Somebody else writes to say my online account has been hacked. Nobody says "we'd like to send you on an all-expenses paid trip to Peru." Or, "the time machine you requested last Thursday is available for flight."

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The Rumpus Original Poetry Anthology is now available for purchase and boasts work from wonderful writers including Kara Candito, Forrest Gander, Nick Lantz, Josh Rivkin. Oh, and me. I'm in the mix.

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National Poetry Month comes to Amman. I'll be visiting three middle school classes this April to talk lines and stanzas. Already brainstorming ways to engage the students. Considering fireworks and magic tricks. Happy gas? How best to make kids proclaim, "Poetry doesn't suck."

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Why is it that each day the simple task of writing a sentence feels more and more like wrestling a jellyfish? No. Less a jellyfish (too passive) than a seagull or something prone toward...