This Nickolas Butler profile (read it here) of Wisconsin Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig made me feel old in the best way…took me back to being the farm kid writing bad…View post

Never won a Pulitzer, but my book was in a parade. And memories like this are why I’ll never catch up on thank-yous.

As word spreads, we keep getting more inquiries about Mike’s book Forty Acres Deep, and–more specifically–where to find it. Below are the basics. And then, at the end, the story of…View post

An article about the new book.

It’s early evening Sunday. Sun and shadows flattening across the grass that turned green while I was gone. It’s quiet here. Some birdsong, that’s it. After I parked the van…View post