New Approach to Manuscript Consultations

July 29, 2026

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Having offered approximately 1,000 manuscript reviews (that has to be close to the actual number) during the past 27 years and having evaluated about 5,000 manuscript submissions per year, every year, I believe that I’ve learned so much about what poets seem to need most. And so, I’ve re-imagined how best to satisfy that need. […]

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Precipitated out of Light

May 22, 2026

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What Turner does here is almost scandalous: instead of landscape he paints the trembling birth of perception itself. Mountain, shore, water, sky—none arrive as fixed presences; they seem still to be entering the world, gathering themselves from some prior condition of radiance and air. The eye reaches instinctively for certainty—a horizon to stand upon, an […]

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