Andy Fitch is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming’s MFA Program. He is the author (along with Jon Cotner) of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). His chapbook Island is forthcoming from The Song Cave, and his critical study Not Intelligent, but Smart: Rethinking Joe Brainard is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. A new book of poetry, Sixty Morning Walks, is forthcoming with Ugly Duckling Presse.
Author’s Note: These entries come from a long poem, entitled Island, for which I walked from the northern to the southern tip of Manhattan with a microphone attached to my collar.