Posting your poems on your own website can block them from being published in literary journals, because the journals consider doing so “first serial publication.” Now that two of my poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, I thought I’d go ahead and post them on a new Poems page.

Bodies of Water
Things I Learned on [...]

Nuclear physics fascinates me. The creative potential of nuclear power intrigues me. The destructive potential of nuclear weapons repulses me.

Photo from Pierre J’s collection of French nuclear test photos taken in 1970
Back in the mid-90s, I toured the Hanford Site in eastern Washington State with a small college class. (In the contemporary national security climate, [...]

My list of 15 books that left a lasting impression is full of science fiction, much of it very dark, and some of it apocalyptic. After ignoring the hype for a couple of years, I finally picked up Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, only to become immediately annoyed with McCarthy’s pretentious, mannered style.
McCarthy’s writing is full [...]

Here’s a bit of Fry & Laurie.

I love that the Seattle Public Library stocks older BBC videos and DVDs. I also love Stephen Fry’s jacket.

Today’s haul:

Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
Mary Oliver: Red Bird
Frank Herbert: Heretics of Dune