Below are videos featuring poetry readings by and interviews with Terri Glass, a Bay Area poet, teacher, and writer of the natural world who teaches creative writing and enjoys composing haiku poetry and spiritual essays.
Delicate repose
a butterfly balances
on a petal's tip.
Sneak preview
through lush green foliage
one purple finch.
Cherry tree blooms
against my bedroom window
 keeps me up all night.
I will also be reading
bee & butterfly poems
at the Pollinator Palooza,
April 20, 2024, 1 pm
at Crescent Elk Middle School,
Crescent City, CA
Funded by Upstate California Creative Corps. #upstatecaliforniacreativecorps #upstateartists
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Below are videos featuring poetry readings by and interviews with Terri Glass, a Bay Area poet, teacher, and writer of the natural world who teaches creative writing and enjoys composing haiku poetry and spiritual essays.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.