Bill Kimzey

In "Lives Like Loaded Guns?" Gordon lays out her theory that Dickinson had epilepsy. I haven't finished the book, but it is in...

I've been reading Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns," a biography of Emily Dickinson, and came across this quote (p...

I agree with the conventional wisdom that the poem is celebrating nature and the inexplicable source of poetic inspiration. I take the “I” ...

The Black Sun 1. I sit far back from the center where people walk their strollers and throw frisbees. Depending on what the wind is say...

Thirst Everyone knows that berries go to seed. How did this one become a pendant against my heart? We know that limestone, under pres...

Misdemeanors Out front a cafe two folding chairs sit together, a couple; a third to the side, a therapist or priest. Between them a fo...

I imagine it blue or green. I am certain it is a button. So sure I am that I don’t smell it. Everyone had a parka, right? With thic...