Savor sumptuous prose essays and articles written by Bay Area poet, writer, and teacher Terri Glass, who writes about such topics as the healing powers of poetry, the destruction of the planet, and her mentorship by Robert Bly.
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
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Savor sumptuous prose essays and articles written by Bay Area poet, writer, and teacher Terri Glass, who writes about such topics as the healing powers of poetry, the destruction of the planet, and her mentorship by Robert Bly.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.