“I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem or essay or book I'm excited about, I bring it in.” IfsBookJoyStruggleShareStudentsPoetDiscoveryDifficultyExcitedPoeticLife ExperienceEssays Author:Dorianne Laux
“Joseph [Millar] is much more disciplined than I am. He's up every morning meditating, then he writes, and he reads throughout the day. He probably reads ten books to my two and writes twice as much as I do.” WritingTwoBookMorningTenEvery MorningMeditating Author:Dorianne Laux
“And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds--nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.” MenHeartBookMatterPhilosophyNamesFeltBlackSawsHeardCryMinesThousandUnderstoodCloudsBellsEchoesAfter DeathChildbirthIranianVisceralSlickSemesterAsphalt Book:What we carry: poems Source: What we carry: poems
