Archive for September, 2006
So many things to write, so little time
It’s after midnight and I am back up out of bed after trying to go to sleep and failing. I often come to this point late at night, the point where I lie in bed, thinking of all the stories I have to tell, but overwhelmed by how in the world I can tell them [...]
What a delight!
Tonight I started reading Ted Kooser’s ‘The Poetry Home Repair Manual.’ Mr. Kooser is the US Poet Laureate, so of course I thought that the experience of reading this book, which has been recommended to me repeatedly as the best book for beginning poets, would be something on the scale of a root canal.
It is [...]
Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the [...]
A New Direction
After much contemplation and soul searching, I have decided that I have come full circle, back to my poetry roots. In these three years I have been writing, I have spread myself across the spectrum. I’ve written a novel, essays, articles, fiction and poetry, but what makes me happy, what makes my heart sing, is [...]