My love for poetry developed in three critical times. First was discovering T.S. Eliot in high school, introduced by a wild and larger-than-life English teacher who wore turbans and proclaimed that Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann was the greatest work of American literature. Well, no, but she was right about T.S. Eliot.
The second critical period was through a friend in the early 1980s, who said I couldn’t be a “real speechwriter” unless I read Eliot, William Butler Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. I don’t know whether he was right or wrong, but I took his advice to heart and started reading them.
Third was the year 2009. Idly searching on the web for something unrelated, I found The High Calling Blog, which mostly focused on the daily practice of faith in our work but also had a regular poetry feature, “Random Acts of Poetry.”
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
Twenty-six Theses on Textual Technologies – Jeffrey Bilbro at Front Porch Republic.
A Popular Defense of Our Undemocratic Constitution – Pavlos Papadopoulos at The Imaginative Conservative.
To All the Books I Published Before – Ann Patty at The Millions.
The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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