Thank you Adrianne Kalfopoulou for inviting me to join this merry chain of writers talking about their work. Adrianne, whose marvelous book of essays, Ruin: Essays in Exilic Life, is forthcoming has written many books of poetry, including Passion Maps and Cumulus and published many essays. Adrianne lives and teaches in Athens, Greece where she...

So now I have a website. Apparently, according to Everett’s Statistics of Writers and Their Recursions, I am the next to last writer in North American to have done so. The last has threatened to kill me if I reveal his or her identity. We were having coffee at the Starbucks on my corner, and...