Whitman is atmospheric. @MarkCWunderlich describing him and Dickinson as the "queer grandmother and grandfather of American poetry," even more atmospheric, and also deeply accurate! 💚
This March I will co-lead a workshop in Italy during which we will look at the work of Piero della Francesca and write about it. Participants will stay in a castle. There are three spots to fill, and I hope you’ll join us. @civitellaitaly https://t.co/QK1D5Ajxsk
Louise Gluck was so chic. Here she is in her mid 70s. There is something classical or archaic about her art. It feels essential to me, like air or food. She was a liberator.
This is a picture I took of Louise Glück receiving her Nobel medal in her backyard during Covid. It was such a great moment for lyric poetry--restrained yet emotional--being elevated to the world stage. I took the picture from her back porch.
@JoyceCarolOates Joyce—I’m speaking here as a poet—referring to what, as a young poet,I learned from her example. You’re right—it’s not the job of poetry to teach us anything, but by reading her poems, she expanded my own notions of what poetry could do.