MFA

Michelle Bitting’s Blue Laws

Friend and MFA classmate Michelle Bitting just published her first chapbook, Blue Laws, with Finishing Line Press. I have pored over Michelle’s poems-in-progress during workshop, but it was a very different experience to regard this outstanding collection of finished poems, carefully arranged. From the opening poem about her brother’s suicide, I was riveted. Michelle knows …

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You Were Supposed to Sing Or Dance While the Music Was Being Played

The following video (via Valerie, via Chris) seems like as good an answer as any to the question of why, in the middle of a high-tech career, I signed up for art school. While this particular piece deals with music, I find it equally applicable to the ongoing question: “why poetry?“ [youtube=http://youtube.com/v/ERbvKrH-GC4 width=”100%”] More Alan …

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So Long, Forest Grove

Another whirlwind MFA residency has come and gone–this one my first on the beautiful Pacific University campus. Thanks to all who made it such a spectacular event. Here is a parting taste of the campus: (Click any image to enlarge)