This is a touching, at times a little boring, account of an American family moving to Cork, Ireland. They deal with a lot of the outsider issues that pop up for anyone that lives abroad, but deal in Irish quirkiness the most. I was ready to pick up and move to Ireland after reading about how in C...
Like anyone who makes this sort of trip, I have stories – trekking up to the discovery site of the Venus de Milo at dawn, then sitting in a quiet, grassy, old amphitheatre to watch dolphins swimming in the bay below; trying to stay calm as a death-or-glory bus driver threw his ageing vehicle – co...
Snow-covered jagged mountains and a wind-swept, glacier-gauged lake front the sleepy municipal centre of Fiordland. The scenery and people look strangely familiar, as if I hadn’t flown to the other side of the world at all. I could be back in the American Rockies or in Norway. Hungry and cold, I ...
He has been Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, a Royal Literary Fund Poetry Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and now lives in New Mexico, where he writes for the New York Times and teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. His poems have appeared in the New Republic, Iowa Revi...