Poetry & Popular Culture

Appeared in the Press-Citizen November 7, 2008 How to say it except to say it straight? I saw things on Tuesday night that I never expected...

As regular "Poetry & Popular Culture" readers may well know, for the past two and a half years I've been writing poems for...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen on September 30, 2008 Cn u c hr, reachng out 2 the nxt genration of rdrs via cel, renvntng how 2 read nd spel...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen on September 24, 2008 Why is it when I get into debt no one buys me out (at least not yet), and my doctor frie...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen on August 19, 2008. And the paparazzi jump to search their files for other famous moms and dads, and to the An...

In March of 2006, Iowa City's daily newspaper, The Press-Citizen, began printing poems on its Op-Ed page as part of a regular feature ca...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen June 21, 2008 The boardroom talk is all about the rising cost of energy and whether, if corn and durable goods...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen July 9, 2008 For he can hypnotize a buffalo and he can tell the time by the course of the setting sun and whil...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen January 28, 2008 From negligee to negligence, and bra to public brawl, it’s clothing and not closure that’s go...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen, December 2007 in memorium Evel Knievel, 1938-2007 More than the fire and brimstone downward pouring, it was C...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen October 1, 2007 Rust belt brewer, metropolis of kegs, city of knock and brat and cheddar wursts, we’ve always ...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen September 17, 2007 I can see him, even now, flying with the greatest of ease and the grace of the finer arts o...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen June 28, 2007 By pipelines, by tankers, he stuffs himself with crude, reclines like the Roman god he is to fea...

Appeared in the Press-Citizen June 11, 2007 At first—before their S.U.V.’s and middle- class complaints about the price of fuel and the cost...