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Culture and beauty making, creativity, eloquence and poetry and my poetry courses "Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory"
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Interested in Rumi? - well let me point you in the right direction (opens the original)
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Friends in Poetry,You love Rumi. I love Rumi. Sure. And there are no lack of false or misattributed quotes of his that circle on the internet. Over my years I have read all kinds of translations and thumbed them up or down. Where to look for a worthy sentinel for Rumi?It wasn’t until I read Haleh Liza Gafori’s translation in her collection called “Gold” where I had my first experience with Rumi that resembled the ear shiver that happens when you strike a piano string and listen carefully ...an o
A Poetics of Zabadak - (opens the original)
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To those who have sails turned to catch Poetry winds in the sail of the boat of your days, I’m gladdened to know you are out there,I recently was reminded of an obscure semi-hit song from 1967 from the group - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - no really, that is the name of the group. The oddly catchy and pleasing sounding song is called “Zabadak” and the lyrics are almost entirely gibberish.Check the lyrics -Zabadak, ZabadakKarakatora kakarakakZabadak</em
What Committed To Heart might be like for you (opens the original)
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You, the ones who might long for and practice eloquence,The little poetry ecology that I tend that gathers people in, primarily in the form of my introductory course - Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory- is often hard to describe because there is really nothing like it as reference. I write that less as praise to my clever self but more as a sort of lament that the shared literate and Western culture has little place for committing poems to heart and reciting them and only holds the value o
That time I was quoted in Psychology Today about poetry (opens the original)
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You of the poetic disposition,Way back in 2024 Dale Kushner, a novelist and flag waver for poetry, published a piece in Psychology Today - Are We Hardwired For Poetry?I was lucky enough to be quoted in the piece (the whole of which is worth reading)“Matthew Stillman, a poetry educator in New York City who teaches students the art of poetry recitation, writes to me: “Taking up poetry into the heart and memory and spoken aloud
Autumn sessions of Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory coming up soon! (opens the original)
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Friends of Poetry,Scrambling days as of late and outrage and overwhelm seem to be the only coins easily traded broadly in public spheres. I offer no cure but a possible balm for a few who want to practice a little bit of beauty making on the tongue and maybe add some of that to the ecology you find yourself in. This is still my ragged bouquet that I’m trying to carry and share with a few who are willing. A rare and joyful kind of learning.I’m doing another set of rounds of my ongoing poetry cour
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