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Terri Glass Haiku Corner Flower
Haiku Corner

Spring Haiku

Cluster of purple
in fine spring rain
faint scent of lilac.

March pond ripples
like boats the ducks glide
a mallard moons me.

          Rustle in the leaves
          sings a bird I cannot see
          dawn soliloquy.

~Terri Glass

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June 14, 2025, 3-4 pm
Marin Poetry Center
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“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”

—Edwin Hiubbel Chapim

“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”

—Gary Snyder

“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

—Novalis

“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”

—Guillaume Apollinaire

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”

—Anaïs Nin

“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”

—Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

—John Keats

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

—Paul Celan

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

—Charles Baudelaire

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”

—Allen Ginsberg

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

—Wallace Stevens

“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”

—Thomas Merton

“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”

—Rabindranath Tagore

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

—Robert Louis Stevenson

“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”

—Pablo Neruda

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

—Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Links

Terri Glass LinksHere Terri shares links to her favorite writing, poetry, and educational organizations to encourage your participation in the larger writing community.

California Poets in the Schools

Poets & Writers

Center for Environmental Literacy: River of Words

Marin Poetry Center

Stonecoast Community Blog

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Terri Glass Bio

About Terri

A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.

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Adult Writing Workshops

Workshops

Terri Glass offers a range of creative writing and poetry workshops for both adults and children.

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Terri Glass Poems

Poems

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Terri Glass Books

Books

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