Life &Poetry Entropy | 10 Jul 2009
Mary Oliver’s poetry is an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization, wrote one reviewer for the Harvard Review, for too much flurry and inattention, and the baroque conventions of our social and professional lives. She is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at a world not of [...]
Life &Poetry Entropy | 04 May 2008
Wish to share a captivating and poignant piece by Wendy Steginsky from Wild River Review. KEEPING THE FIRE ALIVE… Mediocribus esse poetis non homines, non di, non concessere columnae. “Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers allow poets to be mediocre.” So declared Horace in his Ars Poetica. Keeping this charge from one of the fathers [...]
Meditation-Introspection &Poetry Entropy | 01 Feb 2008
Boundaries There is a place where the town ends and the fields begin. It’s not marked but the feet know it, also the heart, that is longing for refreshment and, equally, for repose. Someday we’ll live in the sky. Meanwhile, the house of our lives is the world. The fields, the ponds, the birds. The [...]