Mental illness and poetry, they go together like child abuse and super villains. Maybe that’s why my parents tried to talk me out of pursuing the […]
Where did we come from and where are we going? What causes me to write limericks with an obsessive single-mindedness? And why a series of limericks […]
Writing poetry about spirituality is hardly anything new. In olden times, from Hesiod to John Donne, almost all forms of art were intended to celebrate religion […]
Consumed by the daily enterprise of worldly survival, it’s easy to think of all the things we encounter as friends or foes, subjects or objects, threats […]
Twenty-first century humans have a healthy skepticism toward those things that can’t be proven through objective verification. But there are those of us with more poetic […]
The source of inspiration is a thing of mystery. Anyone engaged in the creative act of painting, writing or composing music can attest to the capriciousness […]