To get to Tillamook, Oregon, head west from Portland and veer left onto Oregon Route 6. The next 50 miles are a winding, sometimes steep road that takes you up and over the Coast Range, through parts of the Tillamook Burn, following the Wilson River down into a valley full of dairy farms that supply [...]
My last day in England, I embarked upon a pilgrimage.
I took the Tube from Russell Square to Leicester Square, transferred to the Northern Line for one stop going south, and entered Trafalgar Square from Charing Cross.
Two nights earlier, I’d walked down in the dark, emerging between St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the National Gallery at dusk, [...]
As in this ad for Levis, featuring Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt Whitman.
Most advertising is crap. Hearing poetry in place of “Your life has more than one dimension — so should your beer” is a welcome change.
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, [...]
