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Tag Archives: Writing
Sabbatical
I started this blog to correspond with my sabbatical, which began officially in January and ended when I taught my first class in September. It was a rough few days the first week, and I’m still not altogether used to … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Change, English, Poems, Poetry, poets, professors, Revise, Revision, Sabbatical, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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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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A Few Thoughts After a Long Trip
It is part of the poet’s job to get used to his inner rhythms, those seemingly predictable patterns which, from a distance, map his temperament. I was reading some old poems yesterday and found that, as I have always hoped, the new poems … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Change, Poems, Poetry, Rembrandt, Revision, Traveling, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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Ours to Love
I literally wrote myself sick last week. Mostly I think this was because I stayed awake for twenty-four hours the day of the big snowstorm to finish a series of poems, which I began perhaps a week before that. I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Love, mumbo jumbo, Poetry, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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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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It Must Root in the Heart
Poetry requires living a real life. This means daily interaction with the real world with its real requirements, and its real people with their real demands. It is poetry, which becomes a kind of hermitage, a walled-off garden, in which … Continue reading
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Tagged It Must Root in the Heart, Poems, Poetry, Sabbatical, Writing
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