Here Comes Trouble: Sitting Down with a Big Idea

Recently, I read a conversation that the poet Stephane Mallarme had with the artist Degas.  (T.V.F. Brogan)  Degas complained to Mallarme that he was having trouble coming up with noble sentiments or profound thoughts to put in poems.  Mallarme replied that poetry isn’t made out of ideas; it is made out of words.  How many […]

In Which I Finally Talk About My Own Work

Clearly this is not my own work.  It belongs to Peanuts Comics.  I made a few ground rules for myself when I started this blog over two years ago.  Contrary to other poetry blogs which I have seen (and greatly enjoyed) I decided not to post any of my own work on here.  That decision […]