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  A crow looks at its shadow, April 2024 If you compare poetry/poets/the critical discussion of poetry today with what poetry was like even ...

  2012               It is through human expression that we can defeat the over arching digital tyranny; through joy and poetry w...

Preface   What in one is dark   Illumine, what is low raise and support                              —John Milton   T ...

  I've spent a lifetime writing: a diary I've kept  everyday since January 1965, books, poetry, book reviews,  criticism , and  corr...

  This essay is in the December issue of The Artisanal Writer; you have to log in, free of charge, to visit the site, or just read it here....

Poetry is the soul's DNA , the memory of the human race. Poetry, not prose, not history, not fiction or drama or short stories or religi...

I always assumed that everyone had “big dreams” at some time in their life. Everyone dreams but most people don’t listen to their dream...

Part of a poet's education is reading poetry and hearing poets read their work. Other people's poems inspire us, not to write like t...

September 2016 The Age of Virgo (c. 13,000 - 10,800 B.C.) The months begin and are like winter, always longer than expected: five mon...