Bookmarks List/Bedside Table

Currently reading and enjoying:

• The Children’s War, by Shaindel Beers. Beautiful work....more on this soon!
• Thrall, by Natasha Trethewey. She’s coming to speak at CCAD (where I teach, quite happily!) this fall.....can’t wait to see her read!
• The Faraway Nearby, by Rebecca Solnit. This book has been living in my brainshelf since I read it a few weeks ago. I loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost so much, and I might actually love this book equally.
• The audio excerpts from Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographer’s Essays. WOW. What an inspiring idea....I’m wondering if “poems not written” would be interesting at all?

Also, some of my work has been floating around the internet, and I wanted to share it with you:

• “Let Us Now Contemplate the Key”--an essay (!!!) of mine in The Atlantic, as part of the wonderful Object Lessons series.
• Four poems of mine from In the Kettle, the Shriek at The Toast (one of my most-visited sites).
• This neurotic, nutty poem of mine, “Someone’s Been Sleeping in My Bed,” now up at The Nervous Breakdown

What have you been reading this week? As always, thanks for visiting.