Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, November 2025”
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Writing Activity, August 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, August 2025”
Books Acquired Recently
Toews, Miriam. A Truce That is Not Peace. New York: Bloomsbury, 2025. Miriam Toews’s new memoir was just released in the U.S., and I ordered it immediately. Yasuda, Kenneth. A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems Together with Original Haiku. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. This book is a classic of early English-language haiku–the section ofContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Writing Activity, July 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, July 2025”
Writing Activity, June 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, June 2025”
Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition
Gundy, Jeff. Reports from an Interior Province: New & Selected Poems. Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press, 2025. Gundy has been one of my favorite poets since shortly after I began reading poetry seriously in 2001, so I bought this new volume as soon as it was available. Patterson, Bleah, ed. Surreal Confessional Anthology. Houston: DefunktContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”
Books Acquired Recently
Beachy, Kirsten Eve. Martyrs and Chickens: Confessions of a Granola Mennonite. Telford, PA: DreamSeeker Books, 2025. There has been a significant wave of Mennonite memoirs over the past few years, with Beachy’s being the latest entry. Glenn, Joshua, and Carol Hayes, eds. Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects with Unexpected Significance. New York: Princeton Architectural Press,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Books Acquired Recently
Carl-Klassen, Abigail. Village Mechanics. McAllen, TX: FlowerSong Press, 2025. I blurbed this excellent collection of poems from one of the most important Mennonite poets writing today. My copy recently arrived in the mail. Lopez, Robert. Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2023. I heard aboutContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Writing Activity, March 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, March 2025”
Writing Activity, January 2025
Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, January 2025”
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