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.

Outside my window
sienna eyes of towhee
true gift of winter
No roomful of gifts—
many Christmases have passed
without my father
Ribbons of white glitter
against wintry blue sky
 murmur of snow geese
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“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.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“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.