Archive - Poetic Outlaws

The Comfortable Life is Killing You

By: Erik Rittenberry

Mar 30 •

If You're Going to be a Writer...

By: Erik Rittenberry

Mar 15 •

Alan Watts: Stop Aspiring and Start Writing

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.

Sep 10, 2024 •

You’re Painfully Alive in a Drugged and Dying Culture

By: Erik Rittenberry

Apr 25, 2024 •

The Courage to Create

Aug 18, 2024 •

So Live Your Life

By: Chief Tecumseh

Oct 11, 2024 •

Oscar Wilde: Art and Individualism

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art

Jul 21, 2024 •

To Live Fully in the Face of Death

By: Erik Rittenberry

Apr 13 •

Virginia Woolf's Last Letter to Her Husband

Virginia Woolf took her own life on this day in 1941

Mar 28 •

Georgia O' Keeffe: The Solitary Life of an Artist

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Apr 7 •

James Baldwin: The Role of an Artist

The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us.

Sep 28, 2024 •

Three Poems to Live By

"One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."

Jan 1 •

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