Yeah, he lives about 15 miles away — one of three poets in a 20-mile radius of me whose work I’ve blogged this month, the others being Gabe Welsch and Todd Davis. PA has lots of colleges and universities, so you can’t hardly throw a dead cat without hitting a poet.

Thanks!
Is he close to where you are? PA being another loooong state… Oh, maybe it says. Must go look.

Yeah, he’s a Carolinian — check out the podcast. Or at least he was — he seems to be putting down roots here in PA. You’d probably like his novels, too, given your interest in mythology and high-brow genre fiction.

Sometimes novelist-poets (or poet-novelists) make poems that are just broken prose, but there’s a lot about these pieces that seems to lie on the other side of the fence from prose. And I like that.