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