2021 was a terrible year in my life, a difficult watershed. Day after day I looked at the clouds for ink, and thought of the great Japanese painter and print-master Hokusai, who was struck by lightning at the age of fifty. After surviving the high-voltage Hokusai entered a new era of his art and made some of his most memorable works.
Kit Fan on "Cumulonimbus" |
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Nick Sturm interviews poet Alice Notely
"Early Works causes me to remember who I was writing them...I am remembering how deeply I felt during the writing of certain of the poems, it’s a depth of satisfaction that isn’t like any other—not sensual or triumphant over others, and I can’t get the right name for it at this moment. I’ve described it before... as a meeting of sense of artistic form and sense of reality, real life inner and outer. The form of poetry achieves that."
via THE POETRY PROJECT |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brandon Shimoda on Other Arts
"Dot and I were sleeping on the floor. Yumi was in the other room. It was raining and windy. We hung a furin, a Japanese wind bell, above our front porch, and it was ringing loudly, sweetly. It kept me awake, in a good way. I was content to just listen, then lines of poetry, unremarkable but quietly unrelenting, came to mind." |
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