A ghost story.

Go where there is no grass

When NYFW meets Joseph Campbell and H. D.

I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. All the art stuff is over on Academia, or on my website. Click to ...

A story from The Uses of Art

For the last days of summer.

Ekphrastic experiments

Beholding the sacred image.

In defense of Mary Oliver

An online workshop with Sarah Kokernot and Sal Randolph coming August 27

Finding yourself in art, finding yourself in the world of ten thousand things.

Into the silence of deep summer.

Another episode in my hot classics summer.

July 9, 2026 – “A bird, for example, flew into Aira’s café while he was writing, and he worked it into the story.”

The protagonist of the epic poem is a heroic male – but the story is shaped by the stratagems and seductions of the women, nymphs and goddesses he meets along the way.

Another episode in my hot classics summer

Inspiration from Sara Ahmed, Eve Kosfsky Sedgwick, and José Esteban Muñoz.

In the season of storms