Paul Simon: Bachelors, English, Columbia
Kris Kristofferson: Bachelors, creative writing, Pomona College; Masters, English literature, Oxford
Don Henley: Bachelors, English literature, Stephen F. Austin State University
Sting: Bachelors, English, Northumbria University
Chris Isaak: Bachelors, English, University of the Pacific.
Sufjan Stevens: MFA, creative writing, The New School

I’ve written a poem a week in the last month.

Books I got for Christmas:

How to Mow the Lawn by Sam Martin
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville by Stephen Jay Gould
Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems by David Wagoner (hurray!)
Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

Music I got for Christmas:

The Crane Wife from The Decemberists
Sam’s Town from The Killers

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