Projects/Publications/Events

Poetry Daily

2009-11-29T13:42:07Z

"I Foresee the Breaking of All That Is Breakable,"
November 28, 2009

Black Elk

2009-11-26T17:20:06Z

I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and shapes of all shapes as they must lie together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

It is from understanding that power comes and the power in the ceremony was in understanding what it meant.

Packingtown Review

2009-11-25T01:15:35Z

The Old English Rune Poem (selections), 2010

Horace, To Virgil

2009-11-14T13:57:31Z

Suppose you were able to play the lyre
Even more skillfully than Orpheus played it,
Causing the very trees to listen to him,
What good would it do? Could the music restore

Blood in the veins of the empty shade of one
who has died? How could the music persuade the god
To open the door he has shut, and shut once and for all,
The god whose horrid wand shepherds the dead

To where they are going down there to be shut away?
It is hard. But all of this must be endured,
And by endurance what can never be changed
Will be at last made easier in the heart.

H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks

2009-11-13T15:36:56Z

Arete implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself.

Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

2009-11-11T23:21:06Z

The true work of the inventor consists in choosing among combinations so as to eliminate the useless ones, or rather, to avoid the trouble of making them, and the rules that must guide the choice are extremely fine and delicate. It's almost impossible to state them precisely; they must be felt rather than formulated.

Verse Daily

2009-11-10T10:58:00Z

"Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat"
November 10, 2009

David Bohm, On Creativity

2009-10-18T17:12:03Z

What, then, is the creative state of mind, which so few have been able to be in? It is, first of all, one whose interest in what is being done is wholehearted and total, like that of a young child. With this spirit, it is always open to learning what is new, to perceiving new differences and similarities, leading to new orders and structures, rather than always tending to impose familiar orders and structures in the field of what is seen.

Iron Horse Literary Review

2009-10-17T10:03:57Z

"Stet," 2009

The Literary Review

2009-10-15T23:42:22Z

"The male gaze" and "Ora pro nobis," 2010

Tony Hoagland

2009-09-27T04:48:39Z

The goal of the healthy artist is not to be crippled by the weight of literacy, nor intimidated into a kind of aesthetic conservatism, not to be engorged with fancy self-protective mannerisms, but be selectively informed and empowered by knowledge. This development of sensibility could be called the acquisition of taste.

Observable Readings

2009-07-27T19:19:02Z

St. Louis, Missouri
Schlafly Bottleworks, 8 p.m.

subTerrain

2009-07-23T20:09:17Z

"Marriage and departure, departure and marriage," 2009

Eighth Day Books

2009-07-10T21:10:02Z

Wichita, Kansas
August 7, 2009
c. 7 p.m.

The Southern Review

2009-07-08T15:35:40Z

"Country matters," 2010