Where anthologies have margins,Spaces often devoid of artist input,Chapbooks have nothing but key strokes,And spilled pools of thoughts. They don’t teach from chapbooks,Maybe it’s the stink of cigarette smoke on them,The panic attacks interwoven with the fibers of the paper.Chapbooks are dirty and homeless,Best clean them up to use them for instruction.Put them in a …
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Fact # 1: But really, in highschool I used to carry around this collection of poems, and if I could turn the subject in that direction, I’d show them off, and most people really enjoyed them, or seemed to, or were incredibly polite, or had no taste. But all I ever really wanted to do …
I’ve yet to meet a poet– –that didn’t like center stage.No matter, no matter what poets claim. It’s all a big swindle, a laugh, a con. An’ aw sure, ah hell, might not like the attention I get, but that don’t, don’t mean much …
Poetry is not the thesaurus in your hand,it’s not the “magic” in your heart,it’s not in what you drink,how you act,who you are,what you do with your life.It’s words on a page.Being a poet isn’t any different than being a person.Being a good poet isn’t any different than being a good person.A good person doesn’t …
