Not So Random Entries, Commonplace Moleskine/4
99. There is a notion of “passing it on,” that simple. One to one. Elder to younger perhaps. That “poetry is news,” that the inspiration for any work you do and the work you do…
Category: Poets
God Is Hidden. Poetry Is Obvious.
On Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty We find comfort only in Another beauty, in others’ Music, in the poetry of others. Salvation lies with others, Though solitude may taste like Opium. Other people aren’t hell If…
A Radical Presence Constantly Goading Us (Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems)
Owner of the San Francisco institution, City Lights Bookstore; publisher of the Pocket Poets series, including HOWL, which brought an obscenity suit to City Lights and global fame to Allen Ginsberg; poet of A Coney…
A Radical Presence Constantly Goading Us (Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems)
Owner of the San Francisco institution, City Lights Bookstore; publisher of the Pocket Poets series, including HOWL, which brought an obscenity suit to City Lights and global fame to Allen Ginsberg; poet of A Coney…
Make Lists Not War
Dear Cami, One index of a profitable reading experience may very well be in the marginalia we make. For instance, I read Ed Sanders’ collection of poetry Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War eight…
A Friend Sent Me This Poem (We Inter-Are)
March 14 by Katie Murphy It’s Amazing, Isn’t It? I can be, at one moment, sitting at my table in the morning, Annoyed at my boss for being an incomprehensible moron, Pissed off at a…
Where the Tortured and the Torturer Shook Hands
How many of our most famous novelists, for instance, have bothered to take the two-and-a-half hour flight from Miami and see for themselves what’s going on here? —Lawrence Ferlinghetti I first read Seven Days…
A Ramadan Sonnet by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
for Sharifa Barakat Headache, the invalid feeling of being sickly and having to take it easy, testiness when things don’t go quite right, annoyance of magnetic gravity, things fall in a pile or slide off…
Making the Whirling World Stand Still
Arthur Rimbaud, Complete Works Translated by Paul Schmidt And so I come back to the boy-genius, enfant terrible whose Illuminations I bought while at Bellarmine (under the influence of a Kerouac whose words I enjoyed…
A Sangha with Tu Fu, Milarepa, Lady Murasaki, Li Ching-chao, Basho, and Jack Kerouac
Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling, editors, Disembodied Poetics: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School Rereading this collection after many years, I’m struck by the following perspectives from various writers I noted then and that still…