I am rarely in Kansas when I am not teaching. I have a week of relative freedom, however, in which I am attempting to put together most of a book of criticism I have been working on since 1996. I finally think it has a shape flexible yet coherent enough to work. I am using three sections of three chapters each.

Dale Smith points out that I got the title of his poem wrong in the BAP face-off. It is Haniel Long not Daniel Hang. I am deeply embarrassed. It makes me wonder how many other errors are lurking there.