Apologies, all, for the long silence. It's been a particularly crazy month--I was in Milwaukee two weeks ago and Toronto last week, and I'll be in Massachusetts next week--but I'm hoping all that will be settled pretty shortly.

And, thanks to Chuck Stebelton, I have my first Chicago poetry reading in about, oh, a decade or so: Myopic Books in Wicker Park, on Feb. 29. (I hope this isn't an omen: one reading every four years?) Hey--is that really me up there right before Gabe Gudding?

Sorry I missed Ron Silliman out here last week--I hear those "poor Chicago" poets packed the house just to prove Ron wrong.