Allowing the science of complexity — and the poetic tradition — to play out naturally in the maze of business might take a little trust.
The Heart Aroused: Strategy and Soul
There’s an equal place in the psyche for both strategy and soul.
The Heart Aroused: Embracing Fire
How can you give oxygen to the fire of your creative soul in business?
This Week’s Top 10 Poetic Picks
This week’s top 10 poetic picks lands on glass igloos and gold medal poetry.
The Writing Life: How to Be a Famous Author
The writing life should be simpler than this, right? No, it’s not easy, and it never will be. Because we want to be famous. And that’s good, and not.
The Unofficially Official List of Top Poetry Sites
When was the last time you saw a list for The Top Poetry Sites? Now it exists, right here.
Leaving the Radio On, and Other Rituals
Maybe could write your own “radio ritual” poem?
Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
Others far wiser than I have discovered poetry’s needful but long overlooked place in business
Journey into Poetry: Jim Wood
I have no business writing poetry. I am a corporate executive whose days are filled with calculus and quantifications.
The Hearing of the Sea: Thoughts on A Broken Thing
When I come across a book as provocative as A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, I know I will recommend it, but the question is… to whom
Poet, Where Did You Get that Red?
What is red? Red is Miracle, talisman and charm.
What’s In Store
The new T. S. Poetry Store
It’s Going to Be a Red February
Coming soon, Red.
A Sonnet’s Unlikely Resolution: John Milton On His Blindness
One of the greatest poets who ever lived worries that his poetry is not good enough.
Alan Shapiro’s “Night of the Republic”
Poet Alan Shapiro loads his minds-eye camera with film (or, these days, a disk)
We Made a Word Bowl, Just for You
If the Super Bowl begs for nachos and dip, the WORD BOWL begs for wine, cheese, and the renegade Cheeto
Resolving the Dandelion Poet
As a poem begins to take form, the poet walks a fine line of crafting and allowing the poem to craft itself.
My Last Villanelle
I admire a well-executed villanelle in the same way I admire a Baroque Tromp-l’oeil ceiling
A Top 10 Poetry Christmas List
What’s on your poetry Christmas list?
I See You in There: the Villanelle
Like most poetry built on refrains, the villanelle steers away from narrative ideals, away from conversation and linear exchange