Sitemap - 2021 - OMM: On My Mind & In Our Time

NYE playlist

New Years Goals / "Resolutions" for 2022

Exponential Danger

few have said it better

Too Weird to Die, Not Rare Enough to Live?

recalls without context

~ selected notes ~ (collected 11.2.21)

Words Matter

~ thoughtlets ~ 10.31.21

No Horror For Me, Please

Acceptable Selections from Rolling Stone's *new* Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ...

2021 Music -- September update

Always Two Steps From...

The Myth of Taste

On Beauty

Embiggen Your Soul

The Value of Travel

Poetry as Emotion + Thought yielding Speech

The Illusion of Chaos

Prompt: Pocket Inspiration

Prompt: Fall in love

War

Realities

The Poet according to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wilde Intelligence

Wilde Morality

Wisdom in Proverbs

Don’t Be Boring

10,000 Hours

On Prose Poetry

Form

Free Verse

Longenbach on Glück

Longenbach on Pound

Inspiration from Linda Gregg

Inspiration from Winston Churchill

Inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi

Prompt: Write about a question you cannot answer

Why Readers Read

Longenbach on Dickinson

Quotes by Theodore Roethke

MCPL: Pivot From The Artist You Are Now

ENDLESS LOVE - Mark Danowsky's new microchap from Origami Poems

Intersection #66: A Few Good Poems

Intersection #65: The Role of the Writer, Expectations of Readers / Audience

Poetry by Roberta "Bobby" Santlofer

Music: Favorite Tracks/Albums from 2021, Recent Favorites, Ongoing Favorites

Intersection #64: Kicking The Victim who is already Down

Intersection #63: On Memory

Intersection #62: Meaning Making

Quotes by Editors of Literary Journals and Small Presses

Notes after reading many interviews with editors of literary magazines & small presses

Intersections #61: Naming The World, Ordering The World

Intersections #60: Men

Intersections #59: Freedom

Intersections: On Experimentation

Intersections: Moving Forward vs. Moving On

Intersections #55: Experiment #42

Intersections #54: Materialism

Sizzlin’ 7s

Intersections #53: Stay Humble

Intersections #52: In Pursuit of Peace / What’s at Stake

Intersections #51: On the Truthiness of Facts & the Stamina of Deception

Intersections (#50): AI Fear

Like Stephen King with his novels, The Poet writes the same poet again & again in pursuit of perfection

Being alone with your thoughts

And when I doubt, I’ll look east: a music lyric cento

They Don’t Love You Like I Love You: Notes on a Cento using Song Lyrics

On Poverty, Class, Justice, Goodness, Selfishness

Stay Gold, Ponyboy

The Price of Milk

Four Points: Travel Grant for Emerging Poets

1-2 Years: A Few Thoughts on the Future of Digital Currency

The Writer's Hat, The Editor's Hat

When is a poem finished?

Conflict Resolution

Arc

Your Writing Routine

On Metaphor

Entertaining Ideas

How to Dig for Fire

Dive Deep

Passion

The Bane of Truth-Telling

Bad Things Come in Threes

Defective

Self-loathing, Redemption

To Suffer or Not to Experience

No Solace

What is a Poet? What is a Painter?

On Suspense

What moves you?

Listen In

STAY CURIOUS, STAY HUMBLE

On Productivity

Prompts

Ancestry

On the Spectrum of Interesting

Touchscreen Possibilities

On Personal Responsibility

On Time

Recent Darknesses: Candle, Mirror, Reflection

Voice Lessons

The Relationship between Language & Things

Systems of Belief

Watching others watch you watch others

Just Keep Swimming / aka. Keep Moving / aka. Can’t stop, Won’t stop

Jump The Other Shark

Shrapnel

Free Your Body, Free Your Mind

You Do You

More Reasons to Write

Seize The Moment, Gently

Find your own path

Be Courageous

Newness Ends

Intersections

Face The Language

My Mother, Roberta "Bobby" Santlofer's poem -- August 15, 1977: Elvis Presley is Dead

Poetry as Meditation or Therapy