Bill Kimzey

Unadulterated Outside the Krol hearing a witness sits in a holding room, the door cracked open so he could breathe. A pap...

Rampage The glass tapers so the wine avoids the tongue and worms down the throat into the brain’s meaty pit. In the browning edge the w...

Prayer at Gray’s River When a mother seizes one life god moves mudstone like water for miles toward the Pacific and ash rains for months. I ...

To get started, here's a poem from John Burnside : II Self Portrait The one thing you want to portray is the one thing it lacks. ...

I'm in the last 30 days of the book and I'm tired.  If the "art" of my book is depicting my grief, then I've read one ...

My word count is ~150,000. A quick survey of blog posts recommends 110,000 as the top end that I should shoot for. That seems consistent wit...

Last Wednesday the Seattle Public Library and Smashwords offered a workshop on self-publishing: I Typed "The End." Now What? How t...

About two weeks ago I finished the rewrite.  Since then I've been going through the draft mostly to catch up to the way I handle tenses ...

Thursday, June 21 In Ford’s book now, Frank is sitting at a bar browsing the pages of a free advertising rag, “The Buyer’s Guide,” and co...

Excerpts, now deleted, from my memoir.  (I do agree with Ford that some times simple words like surprised are the best we have.) Sunday, J...

It took me a long time to finish revising the month of April.  May went faster.  Now I start June.  The book will end in the middle of July ...

Glück's early poems are characterized by "imperial tone, and plain, relentless language. Glück issues forth her truth-statements wi...

"Hass would like to avoid the regrettable crudity of being explicit; he would rather endlessly infer."  That sounds something like...

I picked up Hoagland's Real Sofistikashun ;  I don't know why I ever put it down.  In Chapter 3 Hoagland gives Pinsky, Hass, Gluck ...

I was reading this month's Harper's , the LeBlanc article on Doug Stanhope , and LeBlanc' points out that the place to perfect a...

My rewrite has slowed considerably in the last couple of weeks due, in part, to a lot of anxiety about money.  But also I suspect that I...

I’m thinking about memory right now.  Different types of memory … maybe I rank the types from most vivid to least.  (I’m trying to depict i...

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you’d thought spec...

From my reading couple of weeks ago: [Boldwood] had no light and careless touches in his constitution, either for good or for evil. Stern...

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”  ―  Joseph Campbell "Enter the forest at the darkest p...