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.
Cold overcast morning
the neighborhood, no one dares
to get out of bed.
Overhead
thrum of rubber bands—
wings of Canada geese.
Autumn forest
scat, paw prints, hollowed out hives
but never the bear!
Poems from my project called Plea for Wildlife about the endangered species in Del Norte will be on display. Funded by Upstate California Creative Corp. #upstatecaliforniacreativecorps #upstateartists
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
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.