Love Letters Again, Still By now, it may or may not be clear that each Part of the Downstream Effects series is a love letter that is also a sword
Continue readingLove Letters Again, Still By now, it may or may not be clear that each Part of the Downstream Effects series is a love letter that is also a sword
Continue readingThis third part of our series on the Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project – which could just as easily, and perhaps more persuasively, be named Reasons To Oppose The
Continue readingA Second Affair If you write one love letter to a place you’ve never been to, it might be construed as endearing. Like the time I wrote a letter to
Continue readingIntroducing ScholarDay’s New Investigative Series: “Forest Service Says What?” Rewind to 2018 (oh how young we were!), the Forest Service invited us to submit how we felt about letting a
Continue readingMemories of Mud Lake I wish I had more memories of Mud Lake. In fact, I can’t honestly say that I’ve seen the lake itself or its adjacent wetlands, since
Continue readingI have not read Proust (although Swann’s Way is a paperweight for me just now, trying to flatten some poems whose edges can’t help but curl up), and so don’t
Continue readingThere is something in the water in Idaho. I suspect it might be Philadelphia. Exhibit A: Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was a poet who happened to be (unfortunately) a fascist.
Continue readingStatus of the Kilgore Project The end of 2019 has brought with its shortest-of-days some Kilgore Project-related gifts: December 18, 2019 — Advocates for the West won a ruling from
Continue readingI stumbled over some familiar words while reading Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia in preparation for a trip to Patagonia in early 2019. The words are ones that have been stuck
Continue reading[Stage Directions: Please listen to Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 in D minor as you read this post. It is the perfect tincture of macabre and adventure.] The other morning, in
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