The Academy of American Poets has published one of my teaching essays. Essentially the essay is a stand-alone version of the introduction to The Conversation, and I am very, very pleased to know that the academy's education wing sees value in it.

In other news, yesterday it rained and rained and roads washed out all around the state and Portland was under water, but the fates did not make me drive in any of it. Today will be bright and breezy, and I will drive to Massachusetts and pick up my son at college and take him out to dinner, and then we will go to my poetry reading together, and I will promise not to read anything that evokes his misspent elementary-school years.