Tag: writers

• June 28, 2012

  For Nora

  When Harry Met Sally came out in 1989 when I was 16. I saw it nine times in the theater. Nine. One of those nine times was with a boy with whom I was in desperate, angst-y teenage love. As I watched the movie with him, stealing sidelong glances to see if he laughed at […]
• February 16, 2011

  A Poem for Blue Bicycle Books, Billy Collins & Bill Murray

  Kismet While purchasing signed copies of Billy Collins’s poetry, Picnic, Lightning, The Trouble With Poetry (and other poems), I notice a photograph on the counter of the poet laureate, the young woman ringing me up and the bookshop owner. The photograph shows the woman and the owner attempting to hold ecstasy at arm’s length, alongside […]