Til is a writer and professor living in the Shenandoah Valley. He is an associate professor in the Language Arts and Social Sciences division at Northern Virginia Community College and is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Art with an MFA in Creative Writing. Til has published poetry online and is currently trying to publish a middle-grade fantasy/adventure novel. Please feel free to visit his instructional website at www.EnglishIsKillingMe.com.
This is the poem where no one drowns in summer Or propranolol, gyves or sluices or falls in love with Sister Wendy. No one pisses off a dock, no one is pixilated Or doll-like, no one gets high and sticks up a bodega; No one wakes this morning believing his or her life is like The reassembled pieces of a torn up letter, nothing clots or tethers. This is the p […]
There is much strange in La Vita Nuova, the libello or “little book” that Dante composed fifteen or so years before starting in on the Divine Comedy. Take, for starters, the form of the book, an alternation of prose and poetry that produces effects as dizzying as any in Williams's Spring and All. Or take the central narrative, which describes a love—you […]