Occasionally, you come across a book that feels like old home week, like you’ve returned to your college alma mater and almost nothing has changed. Poet and writer Ben Palpant has written a book just like that.
The book is An Axe for the Frozen Sea: Conversations with poets about what matters most. Over the course of many months, Palpant interviewed 17 poets. He talked to them about what they write, why they write, how they view poetry (their own and others’), and generally focusing on the question most poets likely ask themselves throughout their writing careers: Why poetry?
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
A Seeming Stillness – poem by David Whyte.
“The Restoration” and “Quo Vadis?” – poems by Brian Yapko at Society of Classical Poets.
Estuary – poem by Luci Shaw at Rabbit Room Poetry.
Pansies – poem by Kate Seymour MacLean at Every Day Poems.
“The Waste Land,” poem by T.S. Eliot – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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