Two Poems

Next year, University of Iowa Press will publish my second novel, The Tigers of Lents, which I worked on over the course of twelve years. The novel shows a seldom seen side of Portland, Oregon. It’s a

For twenty-eight years I’ve led creative writing workshops in public schools, and over that time I’ve witnessed, in classrooms, the changes wrought by Big Tech. Last fall I worked in a high school cla

Yesterday a neighbor cycled by as I was watering the trees. He stopped and we chatted for a while, and at length he mentioned the rising crime rate. He had just watched the local news. “It seems like