Poetry Reading at Aunt Eek’s

Horses On the Way to Work

Design Cues

Pen and ink studies of a dove found dead after a storm.

I drew a picture of a man with a hat.

A poem I wrote wound up in the liner of an album.

Ryan Culwell’s Flatlands

Ryan Culwell’s “Flatlands” turns five years old next week.

There were horses on the way home from work, so I painted a picture. Watercolor pencils finger washed with coffee on paper by Seth Wieck.

Hammer Through Daisies

@curatormagazine posted my most recent essay. Surprise, I write about death again. And Dylan Thomas. Irony isn’t bad, of course. It allows us to grasp the nebulae of death or time or memory and examine them as things, briefly, because irony is a posture toward existence that grants the bizarre possibility that things like flowers […]

Finalist in Narrative’s 2013 Spring Contest

“Lantern, Name Thy Bearer”, an excerpt from a long story I’ve been working on, was selected as a finalist in Narrative Magazine’s 2013 Spring Contest. Here’s a list of the finalists, a group in which I’m proud to be found: Jerad Alexander On Our Next Stop in Modern War Robert Bausch Rescue Joe David Bellamy […]