"Lifer," a poem in the NYRB

“Lifer,” a new poem of mine, is published in the 17 October 2024 issue of the New York Review of Books. Please check it out!

In other news, I’ll soon be leaving the derelict building where I’ve rented a writing studio for the past dozen years. The new owners plan to turn it into apartments. If you happen to have read Melville’s novel Pierre, you will have an idea what kind of building this was—an archaic structure that the lords of real estate for a time weren’t able to figure out what to do with, and where deserters from capitalism were therefore able, for a while, to find shelter for their arty, inefficient pursuits.

I’ve found a new place, which I hope will be even better, but I wrote one and a half novels here (counting only those that have seen the light of day), and more than a dozen short stories and poems, and I’ll miss it!