NathanBrown

I'm still refusing to talk politics. . . though, I'm weakening, I'll admit. But I thought this little thought on the politics of poetry...

Well, the dark year that books (the ones made with paper pages and covers that bend and warp with a reader’s love) were scheduled to...

So... maybe Melania Trump's speech had a super model in Michelle Obama. Okay. But, let's remember that plagiarism has a great and...

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the...

"Poetry makes you famous without an audience, an abstract or kind of photo-fame." ~ Ben Lerner I just finished reading Ben Lerner's...

If a poem could be considered "bad" (let's say, in a theoretical world -- since, in a politically correct world, it is not possible),...

A note from a fellow Okie!

Poems are the back roads of literature. They’re asking you to slow down. You’ve got to watch out for the speed limits in all the little...

I'm writing a book on Genesis (the biblical one) right now, and I can see that some of it will be offensive, if not highly, to some...

Some days I'm just a dung beetle pushin' balls of it 'cross the road. Just another Dum or Dee Tweedle, n' can't tell the crap from the...

I just spent a week in Northwest New Mexico, or Southwest Colorado, depending on which map you’re looking at. The only sounds around were...

In all seriousness... when we treat serious subjects "in all seriousness" as writers, we lose the serious audience. If we have a dead...

This list is long overdue... mainly because I keep changing my mind. But I've decided just to edit or add to it down the road. Of course...

(1) Every beautiful poem... should contain at least one line that is painful, or pinches your better judgment. (2) Every painful poem......

I'm long enough out of the loop now, that I no longer feel much of a need to argue with academics over the nature of high versus low art....