R.M. ENGELHARDT
Poet Writer Author Albany NY
Category: On Writing
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How did the most visible poet in America—and a father of the Beats—become nearly forgotten? Vachel Lindsay Photograph by Victor George. To readers who have enjoyed these monthly “Classic Poem” discussions: In order to keep them going while not driving the poetry editor over the edge and at the same time to introduce some…
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Sophie Podolski (8 October 1953 – 29 December 1974) was a Belgian poet and graphic artist. She published only one book during her short lifetime, Le pays où tout est permis (The Country Where Everything Is Permitted), in which the poems were reproduced in her own artistic handwriting. Podolski, studied graphic design at the Académie de…
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Writing is beauty and beauty is writing ~ R.M. Engelhardt
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Happy Birthday To Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown— A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. * A poem…
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Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell. ~ Scott McCloud
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“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four twentieth-century writers whose work is most responsible for it are probably Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and the poet Dylan Thomas. They are the writers who largely formed our vision of an existential English-speaking…
