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William Pitt Root served from 1997–2002 as the first Poet Laureate of Tucson, Arizona, where he lived while commuting weekly to teach in New York City. His numerous publications include Trace [...]

             Why it should surprise anyone who’s skinned out a rabbit, to realize how thin the skin is on human conventions, how astonishingly quick the wrong look              at the right guy [...]

Steeped in the shade of earth upright — maple and oak — our house sits peering south toward a small lake, but back over its shoulder, obscured by woodsmoke winters and from April on by leaves [...]