Family Portrait

Here'a Anna Rabinowitz, Norma Cole, Craig Santos Perez, and me at Books and Bookshelves last Wednesday in San Francisco for Omnidawn's fall launch:

Yes, this is an adorable family. And, yes, Craig is holding Spam Lite.

And as long as we're indulging in some back-to-work-after-a-week's-vacation-Monday-bourgeois-nostalgia-for-idleness, how about a slideshow from said trip:



The confessional poets have given way to a new breed of confessional poet-bloggers. Or worse. Or a little better.

Emily Dickinson As

I recently completed a series of portraits of Emily Dickinson. I feel like that is a pretty dangerously boring sentence to write without backing it up, so here they are:

Emily Dickinson knitting while kayaking through a lavafall

Emily Dickinson playing cards with dogs

Emily Dickinson in a factory, with Ezra Pound on a leash

Emily Dickinson as an astronaut baseball-player in a bathroom

Emily Dickinson as Catwoman in Boston Commons

Emily Dickinson riding on a hunting dog at sunset

Emily Dickinson as a centaur in the ocean

Emily Dickinson as a mermaid

I think they have something to do with this.