You are the author of the three chapbooks Movie Plots (Epiphany Editions), The Experiment in Morbidity (Grey Book Press), Watching Lumia (Winged City Press), and a fourth chapbook forthcoming from Two…

You are the author of the full-length collection More than Anything (Vrzhu Press, 2007) and the two chapbooks Utmost (I. Giraffe Press, 2016), and Part Of (1999) published by the Maryland…

You are the author of the chapbooks Black Sand Beach (Kattywompus Press, 2015), Bring Down the Sky (Kattywompus Press, 2011), The Geography of Lost Houses (Pudding House, 2008), and I Left…

Photo Credit: Catch Business and Sad Spell Press You’re the author of the chapbook Inevitable What (Sad Spell Press), a hand-bound collection with a screen-printed cover and watercolor illustrations by artist…

You are the co-owner of Space Cowboy Books which is a sci-fi used bookstore in Joshua Tree, CA where you hold monthly readings. Space Cowboy Books is also an independent publisher…

Talk about the process of self-publishing. What steps did you complete to get your manuscript ready?  I was going to release my book from a small press. They took my draft…

You founded Bradypress in 1988 that has published the work of many poets and writers such as Ted Kooser, Greg Kosmicki, Marilyn Hacker, and others in books, broadsides, and other letterpress,…

In her essay “Why We Wear Masks” in Poemeleon, Jeanine Hall Gailey writes, “Slipping on the mask of persona might not afford the anonymity it promises, but it does allow for…

In a recent interview Annie Dillard discusses some of her early reading practices. She says, “Whatever everyone read, I avoided. How else have an original voice?” (38). Talk about your reading…