The Purpose of Poetry
It has been a quarter century since I began writing poetry. I have spent untold hours not just writing hundreds of pages of verses but also…
Library of the Mind; or, Too Much Knowledge
In the first part of the prologue to Sasha Abramsky’s The House of Twenty Thousand Books, the story of his grandfather Chimen’s life and the countless books…
The Political Nature of Art
“The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.” –Robert Rauschenberg For nearly two decades I have been bound to the mystic…
Feeling Poetry
Last summer I edited a forthcoming anthology (April 2014) of poetry called Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words that Move Them,…