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Dear Sam,
I’ve been knocking this letter around in my head—and putting down partial starts to it on paper— for so long that it’s become almost impossible to…
Oct 21, 2021
April 2021
Dear Blake B.,
I recently read a book of poems that reminded me a little of your writing, and that I think you might really like. And who knows—maybe you do already…
Apr 8, 2021
February 2021
Dear Molly,
Though we are more than a month past Midwinter Day, and also well past your amazing read-aloud of Bernadette Mayer’s poem of that name, there is a part…
Feb 1, 2021
May 2020
Dear Paul,
It feels like this letter might hurt a little to write. Not because it's hard to write to you—we've long been correspondents and conversationalists…
May 31, 2020
April 2020
Dear Gwyneth,
The world now seems like an entirely different one from the one in which I wrote my last long-ago Ear Mountain! First of all, let me say: I hope you and…
Apr 16, 2020
August 2019
Dear Emelio,
I started a version of this letter many weeks ago, and then abandoned it—I just now tore it out of the notebook I use to draft these epistles, where it…
Aug 1, 2019
April 2019
Dear Pam,
I spent this morning, after finishing my remote work, watching videos of your friend and mentor Paulus Berensohn talking about his art and his teaching…
Apr 11, 2019
March 2019
Dear Becca P.,
Two weeks ago I retold the story of you and Emelio in (I believe) Hong Kong, buying clothes at Uniqlo for what you thought would be a fancy dinner, and…
Mar 4, 2019
February 2019
Dear Joe,
Have you heard about or seen C.D. Wright's new and last book? It's called Casting Deep Shade, and it's about, or circles around, beech trees. Yesterday…
Feb 11, 2019
Dear Rebecca S.,
I know we've talked a lot about the story of the soccer ball. But because this is, after all, a public letter, I'm going to bring it up again, if only…
Feb 4, 2019
January 2019
Dear Matt,
Where will you move??? I'm beginning this letter in a state of ignorance, wondering if any plans have fallen into place for you and Gwyneth, and…
Jan 28, 2019
Dear Lizzy,
I've become a bit of an archeologist as I've prepared to write this letter. Instead of starting it, I've been digging through old files looking for a…
Jan 20, 2019
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