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My God Your God
Night Blind II; oil on paper, 2006
Meudon, 1928 – a photograph by Andre Kertesz
acrylic, wax on paper; 39.5″ x 26″, 2017
graphite, ink, acrylic, collage on paper; 66″ x 42″, 2018
Category Archives: Poets
Poet Gregory Orr; a brief excerpt from a recent “On Being” interview…..
“……But a person in crisis, an individual in crisis, is someone who has been bowled over by some kind of crisis. And what poetry says to us is, you know what? Turn your confusion, turn your world into words. … Continue reading
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Tagged Gregory Orr, Kathleen M. Dlugos, On Being with Krista Tippett, Painting, Poetry
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Reading W.S. Merwin (1927-2019)
Poet W.S. Merwin died yesterday, March 15, 2019, at his home in Hawaii. Poet, translator, environmentalist, memoirist, conservator of land, language, human imagination. Soul. A poem from his book The Shadow of Sirius (2009, Copper Canyon Press): Just This When I … Continue reading
Re-Reading C.D. Wright, 10:30 p.m.
“. . . That the poems we snatch from the language must bear the habit of our thinking. That their arrangement strengthens the authority on which each separate line is laid. That they extend the line into perpetuity. That they … Continue reading
Thinking about Wallace Stevens….
“What is the poet’s subject? It is his sense of the world. The truth is that a man’s (one’s) sense of the world dictates his subjects to him, and that this sense is derived from his personality, his … Continue reading
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Reading Muriel Rukeyser at 2 a.m.
(excerpt from The Life of Poetry (Introduction) : “In times of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that … Continue reading
Innisfree Poetry Journal – Issue 26
With thanks to Innisfree editor Greg McBride for publishing the above poem in the current issue. See also poet and essayist Rod Jellema’s essays on James Wright, Donald Hall, and Louis Simpson, in the same issue.
