Note from the Peoria Archipelago

Earlier in the week I was up before dawn preparing for an early day at work. As I sat at the dining room table, writing in my journal and sipping on a cup of coffee, the old houses up and down my street where still filled with the quituted of night. Nothing stirred under theContinue reading “Note from the Peoria Archipelago”

Poetry, Thirty Years Later

When I was in my twenties and thirties, I split my reading time between poetry and novels. Cookbooks were right behind those, and Roman history a close forth. Now Roman history is first, cookbooks second, the occasional novel third, and almost no poetry at all. I find it odd how those proportions have changed overContinue reading “Poetry, Thirty Years Later”