January 2012
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Watch“Not That Lake,” by Dara Wier.
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Excerpt from Vancouver Lecture 3 (June 17, 1965)
Warren Tallman: Do you have a sense that the news coming to you is of a non-tragic nature or of a tragic nature, or does that figure at all in your work?
Jack Spicer: "No kid, don't enter here." That's the answer. I don't know if it's tragic or not, but I just know that you better make certain that you don't get in on the things unless you really want to pay the price for them.
WT: Are you speaking there of the poet or what will come to the poet?
JS: Well, both. I think that anyone's a fool to become a junkie or a poet.
WT: Why both?
JS: Well, it's the same kind of hook really, and it has the same withdrawal symptoms if you ever try it.
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“What a great poem teaches you, and it’s not intellectual at all, is the...”
– W.S. Merwin in an interview in the L.A. Times. (via itgivesitthew)
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from "The Totality of Causes: Li-Young Lee and...
Chang: Why did you want to quit writing poetry?
Lee: It was a weird time. I was involved in a lot of activism, and I came to this conclusion that poetry couldn't "do it." It couldn't change the world, or something like that. I was involved with this group, and we were trying to change the world [he laughs]. It's ridiculous. So I thought I'd stop writing. And I couldn't do it. I started losing sleep and I didn't know why. So I had to find a way to justify my own writing.
“Thought traversed
me as simply as moths might.
Feelings traversed me as fish.”
– “Many-Roofed Building in Moonlight,” by Jane Hirshfield —today’s Poem-a-Day, by one of the Academy’s newest Chancellors
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Charles Bernstein & Kenneth Goldsmith respond to... →
To indiscriminately block access to vital web resources – without full due process and presumption of innocence – wounds our democracy and cripples our republic.
From “Song of Myself,” by Walt...
