I taught a Concrete Poetry class last weekend at Book Passage. It was a lot of fun. I have to admit that I’ve never actually taken a poetry class myself, either in college or post-college, although I’ve read a lot of books by poets about poetry. My favorite is Steve Kowit’s In the Palm of [ Read more … ]
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Exploring Group Creative Process
Every time I ask my subconscious for a metaphor about my work, I get the image of a fertile field. I don’t bother to notice whether it’s empty or full, because it’s apparent from the image that what’s grown in it isn’t what is important. What is important is the potential of the field itself. [ Read more … ]
An American Beauty
I wrote this poem ten years ago, and just recently rediscovered it. It’s a poem about beauty (and my Great Aunt Thelma). I visited her in Wisconsin and was enraptured for the entire visit. It was the only time I spent with her as an adult, and it was also the last. Shortly after that [ Read more … ]
from Teilhard’s The Phenomenon of Man
A new domain of psychical expansion, that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it… -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
Inspiration from Project Runway
When I was 14, I wanted to be a fashion designer. I sketched some designs (which I thought were marvelous), and sent them off to a design contest that was advertised in the back of my Teen magazine. I never heard from them, and therefore I decided that I must not have any talent for [ Read more … ]