Maybe because my diet is mainly cheese and more cheese food does not play very highly into my poetry. I know some poets who write whole books about food; odes to soups and ham and eggs and whatnot. This is a photo of my kitchen. What’s wrong with it?
No cheese in sight! […]
Another Richard Peel bit of free clipart
I love hobos. Especially sad hobos with little sticks carrying all their worldly belongings in a handkerchief. If they have a cigar stub and big floppy shoes that is even better. But there aren’t a lot of poets in this day and age who put hobos […]
There are many days I worry about the dead. All our ideas of death usually center around the dead not having a lot of fun. What was it Woody Allen said about death? I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. But how […]
There will always be a backlash against the edgy, the extreme, the revolutionary. Right now the academic canon can’t get enough of stream of consciousness, free verse, genderless, anti-political poets. If a poem like Ginsberg’s Howl did anything, it gave permission for rambling, theory-based, abstract conceptionalism to become the dominate form of today’s […]
photo of A.M.Smith (Triple Goddess Publishing, 2006)
I have been reading The Poetic Essence of AngelaMichelle, by Angela M. Smith (Triple Goddess Publications, 2006). I am curious how other poets deal with “need.” I use this in the broadest way possible, since right now I need sleep … but I have needed a good […]