I know that I've been a little slow with the content lately, but it's been a bit hectic around here.

That was when I said, “You know what, who cares about those penguins? Whatever, dude.”

The book is written in silence and read in silence, and goes from heart to heart and soul to soul like nothing else can.

i'm completely stressed out during the actual interviews because I can't stop worrying that I'm sounding like a nitwit and that I will be haunted forever by an unfortunate turn of phrase.

My favorite part of the interview? The goatee discussion.

Back in 1993, I was in a graduate poetry workshop, and there was this writer, Brian Turner, who brought in good poem after good poem. He went off to the University of Oregon and I headed to the University of Washington. Now, so many years later, we both have books and we're going to be doing a reading together.

But, unaccountably, the interview is in print in the Fresno area and online everywhere as of 8 March 2006.

Here's a link to a Barnes & Noble page where you can purchase the books of the winners of and the finalists for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Awards.