Sitemap - 2026 - The Sharpener
Writing Problems: AI and the Disorientation of Reality
"placed by the Gideons over the flowerpots"
Writing Problems: Future Tense
"We tell beginnings: for the flesh and answer"
"used to the ridges of forest"
"to roll myself toward the lemon stripe"
"It hurts to go through walls"
"smooth-draped and color-elated"
"This mangled, smutted, semi-world hacked out"
"oak trunk but mortise and tenon"
"In the loose girdle of soft rain"
"rough halves flooded with juice"
"When April open the cold locks with narrow keys of fire"
Writing Problems: The Afternoon of Life
Writing Problems: Lucille Clifton and Place
"Into a realm of swords, her purple shadow"
Writing Problems: Sourcing Poems from Within
"His votive vessels but a pack"
"the great old hardwoods letting go"
"As if a squid her bag had emptied"
"The ectoplasm of Immanuel Kant unwittingly appears"
"neck, elegant as a swan's, blah-blah"
Craft: Langston Hughes & the Spanish Civil War
"That is fitted with my need."
"like god's nostril, I connect"
Craft: Emily Dickinson & the Civil War
"the repetitions of oppressive beauties"
"No deity, no lutes of paradise"
Writing Problems: Metaphor & Transference
"Your shuttered magics will record no more"
Writing Problems: How to Organize a Manuscript
"the pinfeathers on the windowledge"
"Fish grease spits at darkness"
"What seems to burn a trick of time"
"but I don't-don't-don't want to know"