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GOOD ADVICE
Ran across this in an interview with A. K. Ramanujan, an Indian poet, translator and essayist who died back in 1993: “Inspiration is not only at the beginning of poems and things; the craft has to be inspired contiually. Every little change, every self-criticism you make, has to be a creative act. There is no line between craft and inspiration, no real line between intelligence and imagination. At that point it’s sensibility (I almost said ‘character’) or nothing—all through, in the beginning, the middle, the end. If not, it’ll really show.Read More
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Thomas Smith’s WAKING BEFORE DAWN is now available…
Red Dragonfly Press has Thomas Smith’s wonderful new book available for purchase now.Read More
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Sam Hamill and Albert Camus
Click the title of this post to see Sam’s moving and clear-headed message from the Winter 2006 issue of the Poets Against War newsletter. Interesting that Camus is in the air for him as well.Read More