Now Playing: “Comfort Eagle” by Cake Word Raccoon has lots to say, but let me slow her down just enough… Read more And Yesterday is Weaving In and Out

Now Playing: “Take the Money and Run,” Steve Miller Band  This week, Word Raccoon managed to get some money refunded.… Read more WR Says “Take the Money and Run”

Today was one of those rare writing days where I sat down, read a few pages in the newest book… Read more Poetry and Vegetable Beef Soup 

Holy Shirtballs, Batman! My poetry manuscript, “Waxing the Parasitical Muse,” has been longlisted for the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2025… Read more Holy Shirtballs, Batman!

Now Playing: ​​”Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That” by Dolly Parton Let me remind us, darlings, that being… Read more Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That, Poem? 

If you had said that 2025 would’ve brought the publication of a new book by Virginia Freakin’ Woolf, I wouldn’t… Read more The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories by Virginia Woolf

Word Raccoon wants to know what the big deal is. Why am I feverishly hunting through my writing room’s closets,… Read more A Book Event, or an Apology Tour?

This is not some deep, dark secret of mine, AI. It’s a tool, one with uses. Some of us disagree… Read more World, Meet Stanley

Word Raccoon and I are under the weather today. We want to write creatively, can’t. Want to read, can’t. Can’t… Read more Review of Doll Parts by Penny Zang, and Other Things 

Now Playing: Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran (WR pressed “play” and it was on the playlist. I don’t judge… Read more Brother, Sister, Ma’am! Closed Café, What Are You Trying to Do to Me?