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Casey Clague
essay - The Dharma and the Pen: On Meditation and Poetry
Though “inspiration” and “spirituality” share a root word—spirare (Latin: to breathe)—the connection of poetry to meditation practice is not simply an etymological one. We might never know if John Keats was a meditator, but his conception of negative capability is a Western analogue
Casey Clague holds an MFA from the University of South Florida. They live in Tampa where they serve as Assistant Poetry Editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection. Casey is also cofounder and cohost of Read Herring, a monthly reading series in Tampa featuring established and emerging creative writers. Creative and critical work appears or is forthcoming in Flock, Permafrost, Gravel, and New Writing.
Joshua Dixon
interview - Artist Interiew
I used art but mostly Photoshop, to save my life to help me express my pain to the world and heal scars in my soul that was making me weak. I started to see how art can help me through my PTSD, social anxiety, depression and how it can help to heal others that feel the same way.
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Sean Singer
essay - Free Jazz: Where Jazz Meets Poetry, Outside the Poem
What if we came around to thinking about free-form jazz the way we think about a poem? Poems are not puzzles or codes; they are a human voice speaking through intelligence into language. Likewise, jazz, paraphrasing Duke Ellington, is about choosing to be joyful in spite of conditions.
Sean Singer
Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; and Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015). He drives a taxi in New York City.
The Disabled & Deaf Uprising
article - Report from the Field: Behind the Scenes at AWP with members of The Disabled & Deaf Uprising
This Report from the Field is a post by a collective of anonymous writers regarding the developing controversy concerning noted literary convention AWP.
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