Out now! Very proud of my dear friend and colleague Martha Patterson. Excerpt here: www.hnn.us/article/a-ph...

Out now: "The essays and poems in this folio are a testament to how Arnold always gestured out beyond herself, drawing others . . . into her orbit. This folio is Chicago Review’s way of returning that gesture." www.chicagoreview.org/liz-arnold-f...

Relevant, alas. But the copious quotations of 16th-century language make the reading inspiriting.

My non-AI-scripted summer reading list of books by friends! All thriving, save Reginald Shepherd, a very kind person (tho he didn't suffer fools). His face always spoke, even when he held it still, as in this wonderful picture. Here I think he's ready to laugh. Looking forward to all of these.

Lisel Mueller, 1970, for #smallpoemssunday.

Can't wait for the semester to end, when I can catch up on the collection of 8 Lynne Sachs films on OVID.tv. Feature-length to short, including the lovely "Visit to Bernadette Mayer's Childhood Home."

The precise observations people trying to carry on lives subsumed in propaganda brings a chill of recognition, on nearly every page of Iris Origo's journal. "How it was" under Il Duce is how it is now.

I think I know Lisel Mueller's work. Then a poem I never heard her read when I was a child pops up to surprise me. Today it's "The Art of Forgetting."

Seen at the Fence Books table, AWP: Brian Young's "Site Acquisition" -- a wild book by my late, wild husband, who died in April, 11 years ago. They were down to their last copy!

Coming this Saturday to AWP: "A Tribute to Elizabeth Arnold (1958-2024)." In celebration of a great American poet and dear friend.

Lisel Mueller at home, 1960s.