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My Favorite Books of 2024

What Does it Mean to Be a Poet? (and why today's poetry is so awful)

Theodore Roethke: Words for Young Writers

Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis

The Lost Poem

Can I Put My Praise On Hold?

God’s Violin

Henry Miller: D.H. Lawrence will Outlive the British Empire

Emerson: I am nothing; I see all

The Joy of Writing

Joseph Campbell on the Nature of the Divine: East Vs. West

Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem

The Eternal NOW

Pearl S. Buck: Learning is the very Heart of LIFE

Coffee House Poets

the area of pause

Now I Become Myself

The Gift of Melancholy

Kahlil Gibran: On Talking

Full Circle

Nietzsche: Love your FATE

The Secret Lonely Echo

The Absolute

The Shoelace

The Vital Difference Between 'Having' and 'Being'

The Artist

Dawn

The Shadow Side of Technology

Three Poems by the Great Sergei Yesenin

To Live is to Be Madly Alive

To Return Again

Leonardo da Vinci: On the Mastery of Oneself

POEM FOR JACK MICHELINE

Tortures

Time Change

There May Come a Moment in Life...

Ulalume: A Ballad

Krishnamurti: One Has to be an Outsider to Society

Your Pain Is....

Wandering in the White Mountains

Emerson: I lead a New Life

Whom I Write For

Song of Autumn

Bukowski: The Crowd is the Gathering Place of the Weakest; True Creation is a Solitary Act

The Wisdom of Eric Hoffer

Henry Miller on Becoming a Writer

The Seething Poetry of the Incarnate Now is Supreme

Mythology Begins Where Madness Starts

So Live Your Life

Carpe Diem

Nirvana

Life While-You-Wait

The Existentialist Experience in Literature

Fall Time in the Mountains

October

Carson McCullers

James Baldwin: The Role of an Artist

The Book that Changed Me: how Pierre Hadot’s Philosophy as a Way of Life taught me to ‘love a few old truths’

MAKING IT as a Writer

Growing Old

True Awakening

Larimer Street Bar

Vulture

Enriching the Earth

Aldous Huxley: On Truth and the Nature of Spiritual Reality

Live or Die

3 Poems by the Great Italian Poet, Eugenio Montale

Alan Watts: Stop Aspiring and Start Writing

New Light: Finding Universal Truths Beyond Orthodox Religion

Why Should We Care About Myths?

Frida Kahlo: Behind the Curtain of Madness

Splash

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

3 Brief Poems By Gary Snyder

Pure Blood Primal: The Poetry of Kell Robertson

The Death of Our Era

The Black Art

The Wisdom of Life: Art

How I Film: A Declaration of Interdependence

The Way of Art

The Grass Arena (A Book Recommendation)

A Life Spent Reading

The Courage to Create

A Night Alone in the Wilderness

Having Come This Far

The Killers

The Intellectuals

WHEN HENRY MILLER MET GEORGE ORWELL: A CLASH OF TITANS

Drinking Alone in the Moonlight

When Reading Poetry...

Elevation

Jiddu Krishnamurti: Beyond Belief

for marilyn m.

The Joy of Life

NECTARINE

The Jazz Poetry of Bob Kaufman

Gilles Deleuze: 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤

Exegesis of Failure

Life Sentence

The Chilean Forest

Why I Write

Poet of the Streets

Oscar Wilde: Art and Individualism

Listening to Monteverdi

Emerson: Who is He that Shall Control Me?

The Sixties

Henry Miller: Few Can Escape the Treadmill

Morning of Drunkenness

Wild Geese

Poetry is Where Everything Happens

The world is a beautiful place

Breaking Free from the Cultural Neurosis

To Make Living Itself the Highest Art

The Gods Grant Few Pleasures Beyond These

A Journey through Old Florida

In Order to Create, I Destroyed Myself

To Live on a Day-to-Day Basis is Insufficient

The Greatest Psychedelic Novel You’ve Never Heard Of

Poem for the Father

Defeat

Yeats and the Sense of an Ending

Vincent van Gogh: What Am I?

The Candle In The Rib Cage: An Open Letter to Artists in 2024

The Poet Rainer Maria Rilke: On Sadness

D.H. Lawrence: I Would Like to Know the Stars Again

Anthony Bourdain: On Traveling

How to Be a Poet

12 Recommended Reads For Summer

NIGHT, THE POEM

Tolstoy's Grave

The Traveler

I Dreamed I Lived in Austin

Thoreau: On Reading Well

Open House

I Saw a Man Take his Own Life Today

Virtual Poetry

The Last of the Bohemians

A Litany for Survival

Carl Jung: Where Love Stops, Power Begins, and Violence, and Terror

Early Morning in Your Room

Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!

Another Night in the Ruins

So Much Rain!

now, if you were teaching creative writing, he asked, what would you tell them?

A Vagabond for Beauty

The Bather

John Fowles: The Threat to us in the Coming Millennium

Affirmation

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

I Kiss the Feet of Angels

Loss of the Sacred

Too Many Names

The Forgotten Madmen of Ménilmontant

Older Love

Transcending Yourself

The Poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik

Anaïs Nin: Some Never Awaken

You’re Painfully Alive in a Drugged and Dying Culture

Tombstone As A Lonely Charm

My Papa's Waltz

Terra Incognita

Desperate Measures

Nero’s Violin

Stanley Kunitz: A Poem has Secrets that the Poet Knows Nothing Of

Snowbanks North of the House

death is smoking my cigars

The Ultimate Return

The Mockery of a "New Life"

The Journey

Farewell Allen Ginsberg

THE SADDEST MAN ON EARTH…

The Road is Life

Diagnosis of Our Time

Wait

Obey the Law Within

Jerez at Easter

Dear Darkening Ground

W. Somerset Maugham: On Being an Artist

We are Supposed to Write Poetry to keep the Gods Alive

I Held A Shelley Manuscript

Worm Moon

The Time Of Your Life

Martin Buber on the Wisdom of Life

Barefoot

Being Alive

Portrait of a Romantic

Jacques Barzun: Reading is a Steady Extension of One's Life

On the Street

Dolor

Into the Timeless Woods I Go

The Endless Journey

Best of All Possible Worlds

Bluebird

Confusion

Resurrection of the Wild

Let this Darkness be a Bell Tower

Tennessee Williams on Love and Ego

The Empty Boat

How To Not Commit Suicide

Lightly, My Darling

Be Still!

Baudelaire: The Eye of a Sensitive Spectator

Selecting a Reader

Leaves

Lorca Again

Don’t try to understand life. Live it!

To The Ghost of Jim Morrison

We Do Not Speak of Love

Sometimes

I am Content to Live in the Mystery

Ernest Becker: Free Yourself From Cultural Constraints

Nature Loves Courage

Say Yes to Life

The Way

When Death Comes

The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment

Shine, Perishing Republic

Lost Art

The Journey

To the Young Who Want to Die

History

Get Drunk

The Future Belongs to the Poet

Enlightenment

On That Day

Chasing Kerouac's shadow

Who Are We?

Creative Quietude

A Single Dreamer

To Destroy Is to Create

Afternoon Song

The Great Fires

America’s Most Alarming Writer

To Those Born After

The Artist and his Shadow

The Virus of Restlessness

Alan Watts: “Who or What Am I?”

There Is No Escape

To Travel is to Live

I Hope that in this Year to Come, You Make Mistakes

Ode to the First Day of the Year