Prose
“‘And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,'” an annotation of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” for North American Review‘s Every Atom project “The Craft of Editing,” From the Editor, Ecotone fall 2017: an essay on learning to edit and on teaching editing, including the fall 2017 version of the living document “Guiding Principles for Ecotone Editors.” Additional editor’s essays for Ecotone: on plastic, fiddler’s conventions and documentary recording, new years, preserving, the printed word, and moving along. “What Can I Give You,” 32 Poems Contributors’ Marginalia on Maggie Smith’s “Love Poem” “Wake Up!“, 32 Poems Contributors’ Marginalia on Zeina Hashem Beck’s “Adhan” A very short essay on the downtown Durham post office, and on writing letters, for In Quire’s Picture Postcards series, and in There’s This Place I Know…, an anthology of work from the series, edited by H. L. Hix and Heather Lang, October 2015 Notes on five place-based poets for Vela’s Bookmarked column “Falling Through the Screen,” on children’s literature about computing technology, American Scientist “On a Beech Branch, Noon,” a flash essay, qarrtsiluni Reviews “Elemental Amulets,” a review of Chemical Poems: One on Each Element, by Mario Markus, Journal of Chemical and Engineering News Beautiful Corn: America’s Original Grain from Seed to Plate, by Anthony Boutard Science and art/science reporting
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