“Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!” ArtBookFormComing Out Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.” SchoolFormGraduatesEssaysThesisGraduate SchoolPersonal Essays Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“Ironically the blog has re-opened the essay as a good form for me. I like to look and make commentary! If I sense my essays are good, I try to resubmit to another place in pulp and several of them have been variously published in newspapers and magazines.” IfsTryingLooksHas BeensFormNewspapersMagazinesEssaysBlogsCommentaryPulp Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“The blog is also a way to continue to register what I see and hear in a day - no matter what the form. In fact, my blog is a complete mixture of forms.” WayMatterFactsFormNo Matter WhatMixturesBlogsRegister Author:Stephen Vincent Benet