Butch Gets Schooled: Conversations with Tony Tost, Part Three

Dear Bees, I am happy to bring you Parts Three and Four of my Conversation with Tony Tost. Americana has been out since Friday. A beer and…

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Here’s a poem- “The Hawthorns,” a response to Antonio Ganomeda’s “Landscape,” from Castilian Blues

Favorite book of poems so far this year

First Bersani, best Bersani?

Coffee Shop Reading Journal: I’m deep in my last quarter, so catching up on school reading today.

Coffee Shop Diary: Mostly reading CBT and program evaluation stuff for school. But I brought this along, too. One of my favorite books of all time. I think I have five copies or so, just in case a friend needs a gift.

A piece by Shannon Gray, for my poem, “The End of God is Dead.” It incorporates Lucio Fontana’s The End of God.

I’m getting back the Howard B. prints that I thought had been lost to time and my old nomadic life. Here is some of the art I wanted to have in my first book, but couldn’t. Art by Shannon Gray, Grant W Miller, and Philip Cheaney.

i’m hella sore after this one. I’ve done more volume before but the past few weeks I’ve been consistently using my pair of 60 lbs kettles.

Coffee Shop Diary: Love love love this book. A lot of how I think about myth I got here.

A beautiful day for a walk in the park. 💗 ☀️

Sh*t I’ve been cooking- a very tasty cube steak and my new favorite breakfast, eggs and salmon

Kandinsky, Movement, 1935