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Tag Archives: the spirit
Revising Revision
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
On Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji
Next month, S4N Books releases my first full-length collection of poems, Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji. Actually, the book contains not one full-length collection, but two long sequences. The first, “Little Songs,” is a series of sonnet-like poems presented … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Adam Penna, books, Emerson, faith, Little Songs, long poems, Lyrics to Genji, meditations, Poems, Poetry, publishers, publishing, readers, S4N Books, sequences, the spirit, Uses of Poetry, Whitman
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On “Can Creative Writing Be Taught?”
This week in the New Yorker Louis Menand reviews a book called The Program Era by Marc McGurl. According to Menand, the book attempts to make the argument – and I’m simplifying here – that the proliferation of creative writing programs has not only affected the way we write … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Writing, Eliot, Emerson, faith, genius, greatness, humility, Kafka, Menand, MFA, Poetry, teaching, the spirit, Whitman
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On Poetic Insight
I listened to a good friend and a fine poet lecture on teaching writing a few weeks ago. I was impressed especially by how she goes about teaching. Her pedagogy is very similar to mine, and I chalk that up … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, God, Insight, Poems, Poetry, reading, Rilke, the spirit, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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Noli Me Tangere
Our conceptions of God and God are not the same thing. This is why, for me, poetry surpasses religion in the knowing of God, because poetry looks to discard the concepts that don’t work to discover and embrace the ones … Continue reading
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Tagged Carthusian, Dante, God, Noli me tangere, Poetry, Purgatory, The Divine Comedy, the spirit
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An Activity of the Spirit with Many Names
To write poems before midlife begins, really, is nothing much. Nothing truly vital competes for one’s consciousness like it will soon. And the longer we make adolescence, the less a risk writing poetry is for as long as one depends … Continue reading
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, Dante, Dickinson, Emerson, midlife, Poems, Poetry, the spirit, Thoreau, Writing
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