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Tag Archives: poets
10 Poems from TOH Published on Underfoot Poetry
Thanks to Tim and Jenny Miller and Underfoot Poetry for publishing the 10-poem sample from Talk of Happiness. If you like these poems, you’ll likely like the rest of the book, which you can purchase here.
Posted in Publications
Tagged Adam Penna, poet, Poetry, poets, publication, publications, S4N Books, Underfoot Poetry
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From a Discarded Post II
“So what is the divine? First, it is in us and not outside of us. All searching for the divine out there leads to dead ends, unless that searching corresponds to some inner searching. There are many, many scapes and … Continue reading
Posted in Commonplaces & Other Miracles
Tagged Adam Penna, Elijah, God, John Koethe, Little Flames, Poems, Poetry, poets, publication, Revision, Small Fires, Soul, still small voice, The Bible, The Book of Kings, The Soul, Trump, What is the divine?
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From a Discarded Post
“A poet’s first preoccupation has to be with love. Where ordinary men and women–I don’t mean ordinary in any pejorative sense, but rather in its Latin sense–can afford to submit their lives to chance and do, mostly, fairly well as … Continue reading
Posted in Commonplaces & Other Miracles
Tagged Adam's Curse, chance, Creatures, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love, Love in a Time of Cholera, luck, Poetry, poets, Revision, Yeats
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This Is Just a Place
for Steve, in memoriam After you divorced, ten years passed before We saw each other and, By that time, ruin found me too I can’t begin to tell the story It doesn’t matter now. Let it suffice That we were … Continue reading
Posted in Commonplaces & Other Miracles
Tagged A.R. Ammons, Harmonium, in memoriam, Max Stabelin, Poems, Poetry, poets, Wallace Stevens
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Commonplaces & Other Miracles
Periodically, I revise the direction of this blog. Given my point of view about revision, and what its aims and objects are, this is a good thing. And given the magnitude of the changes I’ve experienced in my life these … Continue reading
Posted in Commonplaces & Other Miracles
Tagged Adam Penna, America, blogging, children, comics, dad, Dante, father, parenting, Poetry, poets, resist, Robert Bly, stepfather, stepson, stepsons, The Divine Comedy, Trump, Trump's America
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The Newest Difference
This week started out slowly, that is, if I begin my week just after the last blog post. Not the posting of the presentation I gave as part of the Faculty Association professional development panel, but the one called And … Continue reading
Posted in On Fiction, On the Novel, Sabbatical
Tagged 40-something, Adam Penna, Carl Jung, Change, fiction, Joseph Campbell, Jungian, Marc McGurl, men of faith, non-fiction, novel, Novelist, philosophy, Poetry, poets, religion, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Turning 40, Writing
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And And And
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
Posted in On the Novel
Tagged A Coast of Trees, Adam Penna, AR Ammons, Dante, Homer, James Joyce, John Berryman, Knausgaard, My Struggle, novel, Novels, Poetry, poets, The Dream Songs, The Iliad, The Inferno, the writing process, Ulysses, Writing
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On Poetic Development*
Poets, perhaps unlike poems, are born not made, but they aren’t born in the womb so much as they are born in the world–maybe even as the result of the world. Stevens often referred to the world as the mother, … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged animal fact, Christianity, D.H. Lawrence, flesh and blood, Jesus, pietas, Poetry, poets, Robinson Jeffers, The Lord's Prayer, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman
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On an “Original Relation to the Universe”
“Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?” –from Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson On a short walk this morning†, I noticed that ghostly day-moon above me and began to think of those wonderful Stevens’ poems, where … Continue reading
Posted in Choosings & Leavings
Tagged Emerson, God, moon, nature, nature ralph waldo emerson, poets, ralph waldo emerson, universe, walking, walks, Wallace Stevens, zucchini, zucchini flowers
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On Becoming a Poet
I’ve been meaning for weeks now to write a post here about becoming a poet and never was the urge more strongly felt than after reading a poem by Edward Thomas two weeks ago. The poem, called “Adlestrop,” ends like this: … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Borges, consciousness, Edward Thomas, literature, Poems, Poetry, poets, religion, Robert Frost, spirituality, Wallace Stevens, William Blake, Writing
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