by Warren Gaston | Oct 22, 2015
“As it reveals itself in beings, Being withdraws.” from: The Anaximander Fragment, Martin Heidegger I call your attention to two words in the above quotation; beings and Be-ing. Beings are all the things that be which is everything. That is why the...
by Warren Gaston | Oct 2, 2015
I have recently discovered a book, the Zibaldone by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). Zibaldone is an Italian word meaning commonplace book, a book in which a person writes down ideas, quotations, anecdotes, observations, and information, things one...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 26, 2015
“To refine, to clarify, to intensify, that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force–the imagination” William Carlos Williams – Spring and All I have loved Dr. Williams for forty five years, through his poetry, not his prescription pad....
by Warren Gaston | Aug 13, 2015
Rene Descartes got the head ahead of the whole. The name Rene Descartes may not ring a bell with you. She is not a French fashion model. Rene isn’t even a she. Rene is a 17th century philosophical he. Your memory may not hold his name in its store of significant facts...
by Warren Gaston | Jul 6, 2015
Poetry is work. Writing it is work. Reading it is work. Like all work, poetry requires training. Since this is a poetry website, this is on the job training. A poem is in your face. Deal with it. This poem was written on March 6 and posted today, July 6. L. A. Map In...
by Webmaster | Jun 1, 2015
A poem is an army of words. Its purpose is to win over the reader or hearer to a richer and more attentive way of standing in the world. In the past the army marched into battle in formation, row after row into the fray, gaining new territory for our human experience....
