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“May elephants breathe on you ever so gently.”

— Jack Collom

 
 
Journal
Feb 2, 2019
Holy Vortex of the Question
Feb 2, 2019

The Is of the question of the poem sheds order like seasons, its figure inclined in titanic reverence toward a still greater sphere and marvel of coherence.

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Feb 2, 2019
Aug 17, 2018
Radical Contingency
Aug 17, 2018

The word 'celebrate' implies assembly and comes from the Latin celebrare, "to publish; sing praises of; practice often." This could be the crux of poetry…

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Aug 17, 2018
May 9, 2018
To Hear, To Hold
May 9, 2018

Poetry as intercession of the practical and the mythical. Poetry as amazement, intelligent stupidity. Poetry as forgiving the great mistake of life.

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May 9, 2018
Jan 16, 2018
On Vocation
Jan 16, 2018

In a certain sense, the technological concept of a “reliable” connection belies the connective power of our multisensory existence, as “the gods belie direct treatment”…

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Jan 16, 2018
Nov 27, 2017
The Poet in the World
Nov 27, 2017

Levertov's notion of being in touch is a balm upon the solitude of selfhood. How can a community of words show us what it means to be a community of people?

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Nov 27, 2017
May 13, 2017
Dream Children
May 13, 2017

In shape and color we come to exist. With no more than these we can attest to our very deepest ideas and experiences. There certainly is much to worry about: an immortal violence churns…

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May 13, 2017
Apr 17, 2017
Native to the Mind
Apr 17, 2017

It feels like we are quick to supplant—however casually, however brutally—all things native. And I am wary of discussing the tragedy, out of a fear that I will somehow perpetuate the disaster.

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Apr 17, 2017
Mar 5, 2017
Sacred Work
Mar 5, 2017

I remember witnessing two Tibetan monks creating a sand mandala on the floor of a monastery in Tibet. It just so happened that this labor-intensive creation/meditation…

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Mar 5, 2017
Feb 14, 2017
A Vast Goodness
Feb 14, 2017

Questions open us to possibility, a vast yet somehow coherent future field. Which slope is the solution to your current, which stone will resolve your sky? In the months and years and ages ahead…

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Feb 14, 2017
Feb 4, 2017
Between Two Times
Feb 4, 2017

Permit me the following rapture: For the music within the word. For the necessary sound in speech, the fitting sound, the one that carries meaning like a swaddled baby. For the sound in speech…

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Feb 4, 2017
Jan 1, 2017
Trust What You Love
Jan 1, 2017

I have this feeling—and have experienced it, and have witnessed it's unfathomable power in many others—that the poet trusts what is immanently known, what possesses…

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Jan 1, 2017
Dec 18, 2016
Hold Fast to the Promise
Dec 18, 2016

I'm trying to talk about the importance of silence, about forgiving ourselves for all the noise we make. Friends afford and ensure one another silence and forgiveness alike…

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Dec 18, 2016
Nov 15, 2016
Winter, Future, Freedom
Nov 15, 2016

What is it about artists that empower the wonderers and discoverers in us? It's true that art can obfuscate hope and willingness as easily as it emboldens such things…

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Nov 15, 2016
Nov 7, 2016
Aubade for America
Nov 7, 2016

Poetry is so important because of the quality of space it activates when it is shared—a deep, sometimes terrifyingly vast field of meanings real, perfect, possible, and indeterminate…

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Nov 7, 2016
Oct 11, 2016
De Profundis (what are you willing to do?)
Oct 11, 2016

How do you know if you are capable of what you feel — really feel — like doing? I can hear someone saying: "Some people just know." And what that means to me, in this moment…

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Oct 11, 2016
Sep 17, 2016
The Yawning Void
Sep 17, 2016

What is the difference between space and silence, after all? Perhaps it would be helpful to think about the difference between poet and saint, speaker and believer…

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Sep 17, 2016
Sep 11, 2016
The Dark Labyrinth
Sep 11, 2016

The heart, the gut, and the lungs issue specific, ineluctable commands. They have everything to do with where language comes from…

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Sep 11, 2016
Sep 5, 2016
What is memorable about contemporary poetry?
Sep 5, 2016

What of a culture in which lines of poetry no longer appear in moments of darkness and despair, joy and passion? Are poets making these lines available?

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Sep 5, 2016
Aug 28, 2016
On Poetry & the Inner Ear
Aug 28, 2016

"Walking among the turnings, one loses track of direction and of the outside world, and thus quiets the mind." Before a recent reading, Indigo and I walked the labyrinth…

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Aug 28, 2016
Aug 14, 2016
On Poetry & Friendship
Aug 14, 2016

Why wouldn't it be valuable to admire and encourage the work of one's friends? What makes competition better than play? What separates the two processes in the first place?

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Aug 14, 2016
 
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