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Sharon Olds and two Poems

I’ve lately been “perusing” Sharon Olds – a wonderful, raw poet who I’ve looked up to for several years. Sadly, I’ll admit that I haven’t engrossed myself in her work… but what I have read of hers, and...

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Obama in Asheville – James Franco Misses the Mark

I have always been a firm believer that anyone can write poetry. Your mom, your three-year-old brother, your uncle… Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone encounters verse at their own pace, and...

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The Potential of Visual-Verbal Poetics in General Society

Lately I’ve been thinking about contemporary poetics, and the bridge between the written word and what many would consider the ‘visual arts’. Traditional poetics would place the verse, or the lyric,...

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