by Warren Gaston | Aug 16, 2018
A poem is sound pressed between two silences. A word cannot sound without the silence surrounding it. Without intermittent silence, speaking would be a mush of mumbling, nothing but indistinguishable sound. The same for the printed page, the empty spaces between words...
by Warren Gaston | Jul 4, 2018
America has gifted itself with a fundamental crisis. I say ‘gifted’ because every so often we need to realize how easy the dreams of our nation’s founders can be lost. And we need to choose again who we as a nation want to be. The crisis has been...
by Warren Gaston | Feb 16, 2018
After the Florida school shooting I almost sent out my thoughts & prayers. A l m o s t. Then, hearing the president & Paul Ryan speak I changed my mind. In this gun-crazed paranoid culture, my thoughts about guns don’t have a...
by Warren Gaston | Oct 1, 2017
On Saturday, September 30 the Lorain County Public Library System offered a writers conference at the North Ridgeville branch. I attended along with about eighty other local writers gathered to learn the strategies for getting published. The speaker was Chuck...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 12, 2017
Art is not something to look at. Art is the act of seeing. Art is not something to look at. Art is a lesson on seeing. Art is not something to look at. Art breaks the looking glass so we can see past our reflection in the mirror....
by Warren Gaston | Jun 3, 2017
If all the words expressing all the thoughts contained in all the libraries of the world came pouring like noisy bangers out of bars into city streets shouting three cheers for thoughtful reflection, how much good would this riot of intelligence do? How much good has...
