Monday, September 21, 2026

"You've Been There": On the new album Elysian from Bronze Nazareth & Kevlaar 7 (RIP)

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Ubi sunt - this Latin phrase meaning "Where are they?" was often used as an opening in medieval poems on mortality which sought ...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Return of the Counterforce

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Back in April, a screaming came across the sky, the announcement of a new Thomas Pynchon novel, to be published in October, entitled Shadow ...
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Saturday, December 30, 2023

Six of My Favorite Experiences of 2023

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Natural Bridge, Virginia Great, bright portal, shelf of rock, rocks fitted in long ledges [...] The world heaved— we are next to the sky - H...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Rainouts: 2023 Baseball Journal, Part 1

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QUEENS, NY---Late September, in the final week of their disappointing season, the 2023 New York Mets were involved in some extremely unusual...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

The Stone Vortex

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Walking in a quiet cemetery in a scenic valley in search of a poet's gravestone. Silence, tranquility, the peace of souls in repose. In ...
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Sunday, December 4, 2022

Cryptoconchoidsiphonostomata: Shell Poetics

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Scaly-foot snail shell. (Stefan Bengston) The Scaly-foot snail makes its habitat in the most treacherous region in the world---it lives alo...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

A Post-Mortem for the 2022 New York Mets

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Jacob deGrom looking off into an uncertain future. With baseball engaged in its final series before the 2022 season ends, I feel compelled t...