Recent book purchases:

Matthew Arnold: The Portable Matthew Arnold
Wendell Berry: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Robert Bly: Eating the Honey of Words
Billy Collins: The Trouble with Poetry
Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems
Kilala Kitamoto: LEGO book museum Vol. 1
W.S. Merwin: Selected Poems
William Stafford: The Way It Is
William Stafford: Writing the Australian Crawl
David Wagoner: Dry Sun, Dry Wind (First Edition)

I’ve driven by Open Books on 45th here in Seattle many times, but I’ve either been too busy or they’ve been closed. My wife and I were driving past last night after dinner when I noticed that they were open.
We parked around the corner and walked through the rain, only to see that the store [...]

Cross-posted from The Brothers Brick.
It’s not often I attempt to honor someone I’ve actually met in real life as a LEGO minifig.
Earlier this year, I took a class at Richard Hugo House from one of my favorite poets, David Wagoner. I spent ten weeks listening to David’s stories about studying under Theodore Roethke and [...]