Lori Hettler of The Next Best Book Club runs a fascinating series called “Where Writers Write,” which shows, as the name suggests, where writers do their writing. She asked me to do one, and I did, and you can read it and see pictures of my solarium here. Thanks, Lori! And thanks to Edna Ferber for writing about solariums. Solaria?

About a year ago, Eric Ruelle, a student at DePaul, asked me to participate in their version of Write Club. I was assigned to write about “Roots” and to compete against my fellow Chicago poet and DePaul professor Mark Turcotte, who wrote about “Branches.”  My short essay “Ten Declarations Concerning the Superiority of Roots” is now published in Sweet: A Literary Confection. Thanks to Eric for the prompt and to Ira Sukrungruang for the inclusion!

The Poetry Foundation has several audio recordings of Weldon Kees reading his poetry in a very Nebraskan, very accent-that-doesn’t-sound-like-an-accent, very film noir voiceover voice. Curtis Fox played two of them, “Robinson at Home” and “Relating to Robinson” for me and we discussed them here in the podcast “Asleep, But Not at Rest.” Thanks, Curtis!