Logo for California Poets in the Schools Program. Terri Glass coordinates the Marin program California Poets in the Schools and served as their statewide director from 2008 to 2011.
A bee drops
into a poppy's cup-
what a life!
Like a shy lover
butterfly bush gently greets
my climbing jasmine.
Near my bird feeder
Mourning dove serenely sat
 while jays ate all the seed.
Come hear a variety of poets including myself read for Quiet Lightning's Poetry in the Parks. The event is free, but you can register for the event at https://app.gopassage.com/events/poetry-in-parks-2024
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“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.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.