On the Air

Tonight, I'll be reading a poem for the Chuckanut Radio Hour. If you're in Bellingham, WA, you can tune in to FM 102.3.

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Spent about three hours yesterday revising approximately 28 pages of a sequence for a chapbook entry. Fiddling with margins is tiring. The MS Word defaults drive me crazy. I keep turning them off, but somehow they magically get turned on again and again.

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I've been renovating my parents' garage. They were in dire need of storage and for the past couple of days I've been installing cabinets, building shelving, and putting down a work bench counter top.

I love power tools.

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I've been slow with the 32 books for the summer challenge. I blame The Wire.

It's my new addiction. I'm going to try to finish the novel I'm reading this week, before I head to The Kundiman Retreat.

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These days I feel like I'm mostly done with my third book. Such thinking has afforded me the luxury of thinking about other projects. As I mentioned earlier, I did some touch-ups on a chapbook which I think I can convert into a manuscript with a few more poems and pieces that work as counterpoints to the chapbook's main obsession.

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Wow. The quarry is blowing up parts of the mountain. I felt a really big explosion just now, after the whine of machinery.

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Current Spins:

The Innocence Mission. Calm. Summery.