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.
They arrived
white-crowned, golden-crowned sparrows—
winter's mark.
Frost on top of snow
my boots create the crunch
of potato chips.
Seven robins dot
the empty lot next door
 soon snowmelt.
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.