The Rabbit Room

How is everybody doing? @jroseyokel and i were thinking of connecting back up after Hutchmoot to read the epilogue together and talk about where to go next, and to be honest my brain is only barely starting to catch up with that intention. Who’s still reading? Who has thoughts burbling? Who wants to jump backwards or forwards and pick up a line of…[Read more]

@racheldonahue Oh my goodness! Why did it not occur to us to have a live reading at Hutchmoot! Plontstmoot!

I’m in

George Herbert is my favorite poet, so I share your disdain for the disdain of editors toward poetry with rhymes. Not that being a snob about free verse is preferable, but forms, as Wendell Berry has noted, have the great virtue of confounding us: “The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

On a lighter note, P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster once…[Read more]

The poetry slam was probably my favorite ninety minutes of HM2017, which is saying something. Glad to see a written record of it appearing here (thank you, Suzanne). To help in completing the record, here is the Christmas poem I read:

The night almost had me:
Sleep with no dream, no rest;
Dark without Abram’s stars;
Lead silence that…

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