Tag Archives: John Berryman

Oh, Where, Oh, Where?

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Adam Penna

It’s been a while since I last reflected on my progress with the novel, so I thought I’d check in.  It’s a very different process, novel writing, from even writing long sequential poems with an implied narrative, which I’ve done before. … Continue reading →

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On Eloquence*

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Adam Penna

I don’t subscribe entirely to the notion that there is nothing new to say under the sun.  Though the human predicament hasn’t changed much in the last ten thousand years – we suffer ourselves to be born, navigate through a … Continue reading →

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And And And

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Adam Penna

This week’s writing has been characterized by the feeling Dante describes in the first canto of the Inferno.  I find myself lost in a deep dark wood, fearing it’s a wood of error.  Still, I’m old enough and mature enough … Continue reading →

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On Poetry & Change

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Adam Penna

I fear that I’m not a very good friend sometimes.  I can be thoughtless and absentminded, and even when I think to call the people I love–and I do love them–the phone seems suddenly to weigh ten tons, and I … Continue reading →

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