Vol. 1, No. 6: The Case for Poetry in Our Age
Frank X. Gaspar, Night of a Thousand Blossoms
TMD is releasing a new issue this week: The Case for Poetry in Our Age. Our first article comes from poet Richard St. John as he considers how personal and true the poem is as a form of human expression. “There are lots ways to talk about poetry. Here’s one that resonates, especially, for me: Poetry is a way of telling truth. A particular kind of truth: not the stripped-down “truth” of a mathematical equation or controlled scientific experiment, but the felt, lived truth of human experience.“
Read more in this most recent contribution to The Muse Dialogue: “The Power of Personal Experience” by Richard St. John.
