March 2019 – BIG OTHER

March 24, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”

Happy 100th birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti! Here are some quotes from his writing. “If you would be a poet, create works…

March 23, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes

“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”

Happy birthday, Akira Kurosawa! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves…

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Three Poems, by John Reed

41 All I really want to do is stab people. Once, I got a chance to do it. But the…

March 21, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

Happy birthday, Slavoj Žižek! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they…

March 21, 2019March 22, 2019 - Poetry, Reading, Writing

Every Day Is World Poetry Day! Happy World Poetry Day!

Shout-out especially to the living poets whose poetry I’ve very much enjoyed reading over the years: Will Alexander, Andrew Joron,…

March 21, 2019March 12, 2019 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Modes of Imitation and To the Art of Rhetoric, by William Walsh

Modes of Imitation —Derived from Aristotle’s Poetics (350 BCE, translated by S. H. Butcher) there are persons who imitate…

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You can produce fine poems without believing anything, but it corrodes the spirit and eventually rots the seed-corn of the heart.”

R.I.P., Linda Gregg. Here are some poems and some quotes from her writing. “[I]t is crucial that a poet see…

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“To write is to preside at judgment day over one’s self.”

“One’s life is a heavy price to pay for being born.” “He who possesses liberty otherwise than as an aspiration…

March 20, 2019March 17, 2019 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Ten Poems, by Brendan Lorber

The working musicians Nights make way for each other or the musicians do when it’s working Conversationally it’s become…

March 19, 2019March 18, 2019 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Joanna C. Valente

There Is No One Named Bob Here Everything you know has been a dream you can never wake up from.…