The 2010 Common Book for the University of Washington is a collection of poems. I wrote the introduction.

You Are Never Where You Are

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Wednesday, August 25th: Road Tripping Reading and Performance at the Canoe Social Club.

New! Real Change interview just on the newsstand.

Listen to this June 3 NPR interview on THE WRITE QUESTION.

Listen to KUOW, Seattle's NPR station for a story on my three rivers here.

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For more than thirteen years, I visited Richard Hugo's friends and family and I went to the "triggering towns" that inspired his poems. The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs is a series of thirteen essays about those encounters.

Hugo's poems sink into the places he wrote about, and forever change them. How does the zing between temperament and earth shape our lives? Are we genetically attracted to certain places?

Here's what my daughter Maddy recalls about driving through Montana on trip after trip:

"Fields of tall grass and blue skies, buffalo, little tourist shops that no one goes into, cheap concessions, spin off Native American stuff and lavishly painted scenery on tee shirts. Oh, and beef jerky in Moese." Read more.

Maddy asks me, "Why Richard Hugo? Why did you pick him to chase around?" Listen here for a one minute and 23 second answer.