This poem is one of the newest poems in my first full-length collection, Self-Storage, and was written in response to a series of photographs. The unifying theme for the photographs (all by different artists) was that …

At the Community section of Poetry Northwest Online, read a recent conversation with artist Gala Bent, whose work appears in and on the cover of the Fall & Winter 2012-2013 issue of Poetry Northwest (v7.n2). …

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013, David Biespiel will read with Stanley Plumly at Seattle’s ACT Theater. Details here.
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Stanley Plumly has been a mentor and friend of mine since 1988 when I took his Form and …

Sometimes it takes a long time for me to find a poem in the material I’ve drafted; “Quick River” started several years before it found its course. It began as a series of images—light, leaves, …

Sometimes I finish a poem and then spend weeks or months trying to find the right title, but “My GPS Speaks” was a case of finding the title first and then trying to write the …