I admire Geoffrey Hill and his work (especially Mercian Hymns). I had the wonderful opportunity to study with him in the 1990s at Boston University, and I consider the experience -- learning about Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Dowland etc. -- a highpoint of my grad school career. But when I opened the pages of … Continue reading Hill among the publicists
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The Siren with laryngitis
I think there are any number of images I could have used for what has happened to my Call of the Siren since the fall. An airplane nose-diving into the ocean … a car on fire … an empty cup … a bare tree in the dead of winter … an opera singer coughing … Continue reading The Siren with laryngitis
Treat your fiction like an iceberg
Maybe it's because I spent too long in journalism -- I have a tendency to explain things too much. Every proper noun (and even the improper ones) gets a descriptive clause … even when I'm talking. Take this example from the other night at home: My spouse: Hey, what do you want for … Continue reading Treat your fiction like an iceberg
Nick Owchar 
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