Some teacher, sometime along the way, likely soured you on poetry. It was done by making you read stiff poems, written in an alien parlance with old-fashioned metaphors, and then insisting you explain … [Read more...]
Valuing Wonder Above Knowledge, Sometimes
This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY), as an installment in the weekly series, "Denim Spirit." Even with weeks to go before March is gone, and an impetuous April to endure before it … [Read more...]
Poetry, Chimpanzees, and a God Not Hidden
As you know, I like poetry. I write poetry, and I have some published poems. But I am a hack – a poet-wannabe that will never achieve the exquisiteness of language rendered by some of the … [Read more...]