(Part of an experimental thread to share poems or poetry-adjacent writing, as discussed here.) My favorite aunt who was like a second mom...

Last summer, on a road trip from Minneapolis to Kansas City, I passed through a town in Iowa where I lived from age two to five.  Here is...

My aunt Carolyn retired from a college teaching career and moved into our family’s historic farmhouse in northern Wisconsin. When the St....

In few days I head to my summer writing place, a log cabin in the Wisconsin north woods where my mom grew up. It's about halfway between...

I should not be writing this! I absolutely have better things to do by almost any measure. Yet I have been asked to clarify which of my...

This is day 40 or more (depending on how one counts) of a major strike in British universities, which has been nearly ignored by the...

This essay is lightly revised from a talk I gave in 2009 on the occasion of my teacher, David Noble, retiring from the University of...

Starting in January, and continuing through Spring 2018, I will be at the University of Alberta in Edmonton as a Fulbright Research Chair...