Four by Four #60
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, Four Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
It All Connects...
...because, in the end, it all does.
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On My Desk Now: Ekphrastic Poetry
Generally speaking, ekphrastic poetry is not my thing, but I was recently invited, along with several other poets, to be
Learning To Love The Questions: What Are The Pros and Cons of Being Well-Known?
When I think about what my reputation as a poet means to me now...I think about the audience(s) that matter most to me, and those are the people for whom my work has mattered in material ways.
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Craft Talk: Don’t Ask A Poem To Do The Work Of An Essay
We do not, and we should not, assume that the speaker of a poem is autobiographically identical with the poet, even when the poem is written in the first person, even when we know that the speaker and the poet share some aspects of the experience the poem contains.
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It's The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks and It's Erev Rosh Hashanah
If you are celebrating, Shana Tovah! I hope we all get the sweet and fulfilling and meaningful and just and peaceful year that we all deserve.
Learning To Love The Questions: Do All Writers Write with a Feminine Soul?
My body, in other words, physically rejects the idea that I write as anyone other than the man I am or that my experience as a man is therefore any less inclusive of everything you mean when you use the phrase “feminine soul.”
It All Connects
Learning To Love The Questions: The Power We Pretend Not To See 1
"To me...the error is in thinking that the impulse to self-erasure that the nightingale and the dervish feel so passionately resembles love even remotely."
The Ethics of Bearing Witness in Poetry to Violence and Trauma
—Based on a talk I gave on a panel in 2017 at the Western Maryland Independent Literary Festival
Why I Write "It All Connects"
...because it represents the vantage point from which I make the connections that matter most to me.
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Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
Learning To Love The Questions: The Kind Of Courage These Times Call For
not from poets in particular, but from poets no differently than anybody else
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Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
Learning To Love The Questions: Poetry Versus Propaganda
The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
—Audre Lorde, “Power”
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Round Up #3: “Four Things to Listen To” Issues 1-15
A Quick Reminder
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Four by Four #47
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
Round Up #2: “Four Things to Read” Issues 1-15
A Quick Reminder
This “Four Things To Read” roundup from the first fifteen issues of Four By Four is the
Four by Four #46
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, For Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
