just read

I just finished reading Knute Skinner’s amazing memoir, 

Help Me to a Getaway (Salmon Poetry, 2010). It’s 

always heartening to see someone with the guts to 

make it as an artist. Those parts with his Dutch girlfriend 

urging him to get a real job were pretty insightful. 

He stuck to his heart and put art first. VERY hard 

to do…Now I’m reading his poetry book, 

What Trudy Knows. It’s like a short story collection. 

Best of all, it’s got me back in the poetry zone too 

as I work on putting together a new big collection of 

my own poetry.