Tag Archives: Shakespeare

On the Novel: The Continuing Adventures…

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Adam Penna

I have been meaning to write something on my progress here for a few months, but for some reason I’m having a difficult time formulating what it is exactly I want to say.  Not that I usually know what I’m … 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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On Faith, Not-Faith, Poetry & Death*

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Adam Penna

A poet is constantly in a state of reassessment as long as he desires to be a vital presence, whether on the page or in the world.   So I have continuously and obsessively turned the object, the diamond of poetry, … Continue reading →

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Revising Revision

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Adam Penna

A few years ago I wrote a long essay called “Why Poetry Doesn’t Matter.”  I only remember now the gist of that argument.  And the conclusion went something like this.  When considering the uses of poetry, we ought not to … Continue reading →

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