by Warren Gaston | Feb 25, 2017
After reading Walt Whitman’s great celebration of America, how can things go so wrong? After Song of Myself, how could we forget who we are and who we can be? Maybe we didn’t read it. Maybe we need to read it again. A current slogan stirs the pot of...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 7, 2017
Two words you seldom have seen together, ‘thrill’ and ‘phenomenology’. Perhaps the later word you’ve never seen at all. We will begin there. Phenomenology is a philosophical word. It begins with things as they are – – – wait for it –...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 3, 2017
The double bind of our human nature; the more human we become the more unnatural we are. To date, our human enterprise has been to become less and less a part of and more and more apart from the natural world. Because of this, humanity suffers and the biosphere...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 31, 2016
I am old and I deserve the privilege of being around old things. Now most things around me are new. When I was a child I was surrounded old things. Our neighbor Mrs. Cedarholm was old. She lived in an old farm house on the edge of town. She was surrounded by old...
by Warren Gaston | Nov 10, 2016
Yesterday morning, cold and wet and dark, I woke up in the unfinished stanza of the great poem called America. A new poet had taken over the manuscript: Donald J. Trump. His stanza was full of powerful words and imagery. It began on June 16, 2015 with an escalator...
by Warren Gaston | Oct 19, 2016
Everything is what it is and also something else. It is the poet’s work to articulate the intercourse between the ‘is’ and the ‘else’.
