HeyJaredThe Continuous Life
Originally, I shared news here from my new book HOW TO LIVE: A Memoir in Essays (Tupelo 2023). The Continuous Life (inspired by Mark Strand) explores how, as writers, we find our way forward from poem to poem, to essays & stories & books.
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Book of Miracles Cover Reveal (opens the original)
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Just a quick note to share the cover of Book of Miracles (forthcoming March 2, 2027) in the Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press today. I’m thrilled that the cover image of the comet is from a plate of the 16th century illustrated manuscript, The Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 28). All my thanks to the designer, Melissa Dias-Mandoly.<span style="c
miracles (opens the original)
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Home (opens the original)
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This week, I flew home with my mother to Yarmouth, Massachusetts to bury my father’s ashes in the place where many generations of my mother’s family are buried, Ancient Cemetery.I am back in Florida where I came home to a wall of 95-degree heat inside the cottage due to days-long broken air-conditioner (luckily a repair man arrived last night). But I’m trying to stay in that place I belong with my family, friends, beaches, ocean and ponds and marsh. The sky and trees and voices I’ve known all my
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