Steps and perches

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and Prospect Park

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

Another cruise

Re-reading “Moby-Dick” at Ahab’s age

Aug 26 • 

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July 2025

The motive for speaking out

Some thoughts on Benjamin Nathans's history of Soviet dissidents

Jul 12 • 

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June 2025

Late spring 2025

Prospect Park and Randall's Island

Jun 18 • 

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Early spring, 2025

Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Jun 2 • 

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9

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May 2025

New poems

Two new poems of mine, “Sequence” and “Open Ticket,” are published in the spring/summer 2025 issue of the literary journal Subtropics. Please subscribe…

May 20 • 

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April 2025

How to Go to Sleep

A few techniques

Apr 5 • 

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March 2025

An unseemly rhyme

My mind has rebelled against the cascade of bad things the Trump regime has done lately by insisting that I pay attention for a little while to just one…

Mar 28 • 

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Late winter

Prospect Park, 11–14 March 2025

Mar 15 • 

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Psephocracy, beleaguered

In 2016, I wrote an article for the New Yorker about whether voters are well informed enough for democracy to succeed.

Mar 3 • 

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February 2025

Gleanings

A couple of birds and a few commonplace entries

Feb 24 • 

Caleb Crain

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January 2025

On Not Being Found

In a new book, The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry, Stacey D’Erasmo asks half a dozen artists, “How do we keep doing this—making art?” I read it avidly…

Jan 14 • 

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