My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Location	Kansas City, MO, United States
Introduction	Enjoying irony in his aesthetics as much as the next guy but usually preferring the earnest view. A reader. A fashioner of poems. A displaced Southerner raised by Yankees and living in the Mid-West. A brother. A friend. A husband. An ex-hopeless-romantic; a former Arkansan pining away for the Clinton days. My writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Bruiser Review, CutBank, Main Street Rag, Matter, Mid-American Review, New Zoo Poetry Review, Pleiades, and Tar River Poetry.
Interests	poems, fictions, non-fictions, projecting the self onto the landscape, The Midwest, The South, walking, grocery shopping, laughter, listening, conversations, lightning, snow, photographs, films, Boston Terriers, Kansas City, Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco
Favorite movies	My wife and I watch three to six movies a week. Most impressive lately have been Michael Haneke's films.
Favorite music	Currently Richard Buckner, The Flaming Lips, and Dirty Projectors.
Favorite books	Right now: Hallelujah Blackout by Alex Lemon, The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano, The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.