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Palm Leaves

Open Reading Blues

Ever the Same

Meanwhile

The Power and Terror of Life

D.H. Lawrence on Vital Consciousness

Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis

I Fall

Christmas poem to a man in jail

It's Not A House, It's A Woman

The Wonderland of Art and Myth

Rocked by the Infinite

All Day Long

Henry Miller: The Wisdom of Age Constitutes the Ability to Accept Reality

Stages

Night and Wind

Another Country

The Light at the Beginning of History

Enter the Forest at the Darkest Point

It Was Beginning Winter

Jim Morrison

The Beginning and the End

Thoreau on the Virtues of Solitude

A Description of Happiness in Kobenhavn

Sunday Morning Blues

Pale Blue Dot

The Meaning of the Creative Act

Where The Mind Is Without Fear

The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac

Dream

The Poetry of Night

The Innumerable

Bukowski: Creation is Our Gift

Thoreau on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Nightmare

Bad Days

I Wanted to Write Something Serious

17 Incredible Passages from Fernando Pessoa's 'The Book of Disquiet'

We are Bleeding at the Roots

Write It On Your Heart

Welcome Morning

This is the True Joy in Life

The Nerve Meter

Touch the Earth

A Place to Sing

Notes on the Art of Poetry

An Introduction to the Café Babar Poets

The Wretched of the Earth

Vision

Coffee House Poets

In November

Cold Poem

Halloween Horror

The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell

October

A Vagabond Song

The Symbolic Life

Wasted

Poem In October

The Very Basic Core of a Man's Living Spirit is his Passion for Adventure

Happy Birthday, Arthur Rimbaud

Want the Change

What Few Young Writers Realize

Before We Kill...

Dispatches From the Precipice

Silence and Solitude

A Brief For The Defense

Problems in the Ark

How With This Rage

Let Us Have Madness

The Solitary Art of Self-Creation

The Shoulders We Stand On

October

The Endless Search for Charles Bowden

One Life

The Wandering Man

The Floating Poem, Unnumbered

Fragment From A Public Secret

The Holy Longing

Who Dares Leap into the Tide of New Life?

The Artist

Exiled

What The Doctor Said

We Are Each Other’s Destiny

How I Became a Madman

So You Want to be A Writer?

Nick Cave's Advice to a Young Kid

The Death Bed

Ginsberg

Down the Steps of My Dreams

Love Song

The Hawk in His Nest

Trees are Sanctuaries

The Poetry of Existence

25 Ornery Aphorisms by Edward Abbey

Radio

The Hermit of Merrimack River

A Flame Between Two Darknesses

A Week in the Rockies

What’s Become of the Living?

Nature is Part of our Life

An End to Mourning

Summer Day

Landscape Of A Vomiting Multitude

Keeping Quiet

Poetic Outlaws: The Bookshelf

Henry Miller On His Literary Influences

The Future

The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Humanity

Barking

The Manger of Incidentals

We Need Peace and Solitude and Idleness

Paul Verlaine

How Fortunate the Man with None

Poetry is Never Compromise

Metaphysical Outlaw

Against this Death

The Question

Lying In Grass

The Jailer

3 Untitled Poems by Fernando Pessoa

As The Poems Go

The Perennial Philosophy

Modern Emptiness and the Search for Meaning

We Ought to Dance with Rapture

Trial by Fire

The Inhuman Ones

The Illusionary Ticket to Salvation

A Life of Nothing

The Conflicted

God/Love Poem

Charles Bukowski on Writing and the Horror of Wasted Lives

Death

The Neurotic and the Artist

Ah, We Lonely Ones and Free Spirits

Hunger for Eternity

Sincere Liars

Independence Day

Exodus from the Society of the Spectacle

Break the Mirror

Riding it to a New Age, a New Birth, a Totally New Condition of Mankind

Find the Others

Leisure

It's Hard To Have Hope

The Sea

What They Want

A Good Life

When Death Comes

Beyond the Wall

Master, Serene

Creative Intelligence

Your Sacred Space

No Master

Revolt Against Poetry

Don't Ask the Angels How They Fly

Stefan Zweig: What Made Nietzsche a Prophetic Figure

My Friend Walt Whitman

Air and Light and Time and Space

A Poem Is A Street Hustler

MEIN KAMPF

The Portrait

We Troglodytes

Books and Nature

I Ask for Silence

Our Tragedy Today...

Be. Alive. Now

Nietzsche's "Will to Power"

The Time Before Death

If, After I Die

Living In The Future

There Will Come a Day

In A Dark Time

How Is Your Heart?

The Creative Process

Artists Have Failed

Sunday Morning

The Obligations of the Poet

Seven in the Woods

To Go Beyond and Discover

The Myth of Human Progress

Look Under Your Feet

The Creative Life!

Flophouse

The Pains of Consciousness

On Children

You must Write, and Read, as if Your Life Depended on it

I Am A Shadow...

A Single Dreamer

I Kiss the Feet of Angels

One of the Great Functions of Art

Threats of Sanctity

Early Morning in Your Room

Lovesong

Satan After Hours

Wisdom Is...

How to Be a Poet

Death Snips Proud Men

To Posterity

We Have Lost the Sun

Join me on Notes

Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women

A Mountain Revelry

The Secret Lonely Echo

Nietzsche was the One who did the Job for Me

When You Are Old

You're a Poet

American Sermon

The Symbolic Meaning of Easter

Fleet Visit

For the Young Men Who Died of AIDS

Our Civilizing Potential Has Led Us Down the Wrong Path

The Tragedy of the Leaves

What Is Courage?

To One Dead

Felicity of Epigones

An Ode to the Street Poet - Jack Micheline

Spring

Her Kind

Definitions

Awe is What Moves us Forward

I'm Not A Man

Why Rimbaud Went to Africa

We are Supposed to Write Poetry to keep the Gods Alive

The Return

As I Lay Dying

Song for Baby-O, Unborn

The American Way

15 Henry Miller Quotes to Revive the Artist in You

Why You Should Read Charles Bowden

Worm Moon

Horses at Midnight Without a Moon

Advice to a Young Writer

True Awakening

A Brief Spark in the Infinite Dark

Why I Write Poetry

Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac!

The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett

All Souls

Drinking Song

Exegesis of Failure

A Cry

Would You Wear My Eyes?

Affirmation

In the Bookstore

The Two Enemies of Human Happiness

Pat Conroy on Teachers, Censorship, and Banned Books

A Book Lives as Long as it is Unfathomed

Carson McCullers

The Pleasures of the Damned

Original Sin

The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]

The Writer Can Only be Fertile if He Renews Himself

Wait

The Ambition Bird

In Praise of Idleness

O Lost

It is Hard to Escape Them

The Great Hoax

The Primal Passions

Man's Search for Himself

John Cassavetes on Creativity and Self-Censorship

The Waking

Destructiveness is the Outcome of an Unlived Life

The Train Ride from Hell

Albert Camus: I Love this Life with Abandon

Flowers and Men

A Curse Against Elegies

To Live is to Be Madly Alive

Funeral Blues

Refuse to Play it Safe. Live Dangerously, Live Lovingly.

Who Knows How to Make Love Stay?

The Task of a Writer

Modern Books are Trash. Read the Greats!

City Lights 1961

The Lost Hotels of Paris