While the both of us and the rest were all locked up, ‘freedom’ spoke its little voice, how we had all been wasting her for years and years beyond years. While the people were not of a mind to travel before, yet locked up travel called to them when they were trapped.
Category: On Poetry
A Less-Noticed, More-Influential Reason Writers Write: To Talk
A Less-Noticed, More-Influential Reason Writers Write: To Talk The human desire for conversation often gets left out of the discussion about how the Internet has empowered amateur writers. NOAH BERLATSKYJUN 12 2013, 4:04 PM ET
Poetry Isn’t as Useless as a Lot of Poets Say It Is
Poetry Isn’t as Useless as a Lot of Poets Say It Is A recent speech at Yale inadvertently sums up what’s wrong with the art form these days: Its gatekeepers believe poetry matters because it’s poetry, not because of what it says. NOAH BERLATSKYSEP 12 2013, 7:30 AM ET
Two Poems
as my mood improves so my verse decays perhaps the time is now here to broaden the spectrum write on the world instead of my own small concerns . . . how many ways does the sun shine one drop of water or snow on crystalline veins of green winter leaves the simple needs of […]
Lost in Mist 