Away from Wisconsin for the first time in twelve years, I feel more than a little disconnected from what is happening in Madison, our old home. And I have to say, that the budget problems in Wisconsin are real and daunting. But it is hard for me to look at the situation in my home [...]
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Forward Our Motto
Posted in America on February 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sundogs and the American Highway
Posted in America, Books Read/ing, Fiction, Henry, Poems on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The easiest thing I suppose, is for people to talk to me about the driving, and they’re always nice and sympathetic. It must be tough they say. So many miles, so many hours. But there really isn’t any other way for us to make this thing work, so I’ve always just pushed through. Done the [...]
George Washington
Posted in America, Poems on January 9, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The New Verse News I published a poem online today. A piece that I had written almost a year ago when I heard that Sarah Palin had addressed a group of Tea Party members. She had said that America “was ripe for a revolution.” I even blogged about it here. I think you can probably [...]
An Open Letter to Veterans, With Love & Respect
Posted in America, Thanksgivings on November 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It is Veteran’s Day and I write this letter to you from Iowa, where I sit in a comfortably appointed office on the grounds of a major land-grant university. I taught class this morning, to young men and women of the age that in other times of American war, would surely have been conscripted or [...]
Dispatch from the Road: Highway 35 Blues
Posted in America, Ioway on October 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This was the first drive down to Ioway that really sapped it out of me. Henry was sad to see me go and it was traumatic for me to leave him. Not that our nanny isn’t capable or kind. She is. But Henry and I had a terrific day together running errands and just generally [...]
Apples for Cider
Posted in America, Excess and/or Senses, Fiction, Henry, Iowa Writer's Workshop, Ioway, Thanksgivings on September 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I had a terrific weekend spent in the company of my family and the Hanson family of Marion, Ioway. Nights spent drinking cold canned beer. Mornings around the table, eating with children. Eating good, hot food. Outside, always cold rain and the sky alive with lightning and thunder. Football on the television. Amongst family. Driving [...]
Three States Monday: Dispatch From The Road
Posted in America, Excess and/or Senses, Henry, Thanksgivings on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I drove Henry to his grandparents’ house in Eau Claire. Filled the Bullitt with apples and soda and hit the road. Drove southwest into the Driftless Area, tractors on the road and the yellow dust of combined corn in the air. Amish in their fields. I followed a shit spreader for some time, down [...]
Godspeed Walt Whitman
Posted in America, Books Read/ing, Excess and/or Senses, Poems, Thanksgivings on August 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Teaching today was a joy. As depressing as my first class period was, today’s class period felt joyous, organic, natural, right. I taught Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. He is likely my favorite poet of all time. I had the students try to identify a twelve line passage from the poem which would inform how [...]
God Is A Redwood, God Is Many Redwoods
Posted in America, Henry on August 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Music For The Open American Road
Posted in America, Music on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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