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.
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!
I will read poems about local flora and fauna including poems from my project called Plea for Wildlife about the endangered species in Del Norte County.
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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“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.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“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.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“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 sort of a homecoming.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
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.