by Warren Gaston | Jul 19, 2016
This post was inspired by an email I received from a very good friend asking me if I would be willing to explain to him why I like poetry. Posted below is my response. ________________________________________________________________________________________ First,...
by Warren Gaston | Jul 1, 2016
[poem: The Lecture was posted 6/30/16] This poem is about change. Not just change noticed in daily life but change as a fundamental construct of reality. Change is not an accident. Change is the condition of all existence. This idea was arrived at by two ancient...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 19, 2016
“Poetry for Adonis is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystical revelation.” Charles McGrath New York Times October 18, 2010 McGrath is...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 5, 2016
“It (making a poem) is about the extending of human consciousness, making conscious the unconscious, creating a symbolic consciousness that in its finest moments overcomes the dualities in which the human world is cruelly and eternally, it seems, enmeshed.” Clayton...
by Warren Gaston | May 26, 2016
“The concept of Negative Capability is the ability to contemplate the world without the desire to try and reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into closed and rational systems.” John Keats: in a letter to his brothers,...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 23, 2016
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. Maurice Merleau-Ponty 20th Century French Philosopher* Writing a poem is living the second half of NOW. The first half of NOW is the actual experience. NOW I receive these sensations through my eyes, ears,...
