On Today Today

Dear Lily June, I owe you updates on the bad things, like how deeply I’ve sunk into a staggering depression,… Read more On Today Today

Golden Pesto–On the Occasion that You Get an Urge to Lick Your Walls

Dear Lily June, Though I’ve still been working on whittling down the collection of boxes and boxes of paper in… Read more Golden Pesto–On the Occasion that You Get an Urge to Lick Your Walls

Dear Lily June, At thirteen months old, you are still a mystery to me. What goes on in your imagination… Read more French Croissants and American Fear–In Which We Flex our Imaginations

Dear Lily June, Some people see poems as extraordinarily complex little puzzles. Like they were Rubik’s cubes you set to… Read more High Coo–In Which Your Poet Parents Get Caught in Red Tape

Dear Lily June, Your mother is no photographer and is barely a poet. But there was something about the concept… Read more One Word Photo Challenge–In Which There Will Be Bokeh

Dear Lily June, I love your father. I truly do. But in some ways, because we’re both poets, our love… Read more Jambalaya Manifesto–In Which I Elaborate on a Lifelong Love Affair

Dear Lily June, It occurs to me not infrequently the problems of my writing so very candidly about my family.… Read more Life is Not a Spectacle–In Which I Question the Ethics of Writing This

Dear Lily June, As per my promise last week, I’ve written a poem based on my second prompt, an imitation… Read more Only the Fire-born–In Which I Do My Homework

Dear Lily June, I made it through the night, though I can’t say I didn’t lean a little on the… Read more See Dubs Stuffs, Translation-In Which Angels Are Invoked

Dear Lily June, If I’m going to pull from my old English teacher folders to drop some knowledge on you,… Read more English 101–In Which We Get a Little Figurative Up in Here