a poem is a sermon
When you think about it, what does a jury of one’s peers really mean? Legally, I suppose it means that because all individuals are theoretically equal under the law, one’s peers in a litigious sense means other equally theoretical equals. A peer might be anyone who shares with me age, gender, ethnicity, race, education, geography, […]
I subscribe to several poetry journals. I do not find kindred spirits there, only other wandering souls who seek no connection with the poetry I find pulsing under the surface of the world that has a natural rhythm, that breathes its own cadence, that does not merely wish to impress with some artistic notion of […]
From Ann Charters’ introduction to The Portable Beat Reader: Earlier in the history of American literature, the novelist Henry James acknowledged in his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne that “the best things come, as a general thing, from the talents that are members of a group; every man works better when he has companions working in […]
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