Essays

Finding Yet Another Way to Say What Can’t Be Said Any Other Way

Rattle / January 11, 2013

#3: FINDING YET ANOTHER WAY TO SAY WHAT CAN’T BE SAID The American Literary Translators Association is a loosely knit, unique […]

Rattle / December 28, 2012

For 30 years, I’ve been a free verse writer. I was free to use any words in any pattern, flaunting

Rattle / December 2, 2012

We don’t normally think of cops as having much to do with poetry. During my 30 years with the Portland

Rattle / October 16, 2012

A DESULTORY LEAP: DOES WORLD LITERATURE EXIST AND HOW DOES IT GET THAT WAY? (Part 2) Note: Part 1 of

Rattle / October 15, 2012

“Those that teach honestly, teach ideas that are, ‘lithe and beautiful and immensely generative’.” —Ann L. Brown’s Paraphrase of Jerome

Rattle / October 9, 2012

AN ESSENTIAL WILDNESS: DOES WORLD LITERATURE EXIST AND HOW DOES IT GET THAT WAY? (Part 1) I: A visionary myopia,