I have lived in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Boston, New York City, and Seattle. Call me restless. Music and making cool web sites are my passions. Anything to do with the creative process excites and fulfills me. I play keyboards and write songs for the Seattle band Massy Ferguson, doing roots-bas

Bright, Clever, Contemplative, Eclectic, Experimental, Hi-tech, In-your-face, Intimate, Joyful, Moody, Playful, Quirky, Smart, Whimsical, Wise assy, Witty

A dense reticulum of ideas, which unravels into a swarm of images and a cacophony of sounds but nevertheless maintains a fluid coherence: such is the world of Wallace Stevens, Modernist poet par excellence, a man of stoic temperament and intimidating intelligence. With a daunting arsenal of unfamilia

Composed, Contemplative, Dense, Modernist poetry, Quirky, Smart, Sophisticated

Craig Raine has an extraterrestrial sensibility. His 1979 volume, "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home," established a new school of poetry -- for those who experience this world as if it were Mars. Writing from the unfamiliar perspective of a space alien living in modern England, Raine forces his reader

Clever, Dense, Distorted, Illusive, Postmodern poetry, Quirky

The English language has been forced to jump through many hoops over the past century. One of the most delightful ringmasters in the circus was the American poet, novelist, and painter E.E. Cummings. His lowercased name can scarcely prepare the reader for the punctuational and syntactical oddities fo

Collage, Improvised, Modernist poetry, Playful, Profane, Quirky, Sexy