June 10, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – June
But does poetry actually change anything? Does it need to? Maybe poets are, as Percy Bysshe Shelley writes, “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Or maybe W.H. Auden is right that […]
December 18, 2010
Essence, Sense, Tense and Pretense
Like a lot of poets, I become ill at ease when I start to read too far out of my specialty: within my interests, I mean, but out of the […]