In thinking of poetry – both as a teacher and a practitioner – I am always listening for what the poem is trying to say. Listening to the music, and the ground. As a practitioner, I want to push myself...

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”― Philip Larkin Poetry becomes many different things to many different people at many different times in...

plagiarism noun  pla·gia·rism  \ ˈplā-jə-ˌri-zəm also -jē-ə- \ Definition : an act of copying the ideas or words of another person without giving credit to that person -Merriam Webster Dictionary You saw the definition right? Don’t be that guy. Please. Plagiarism in the poetry world is nothing...

Humans can at times mimic planets drifting seemingly aimlessly through vast space. Space, where it’s difficult to judge where the centre is from the periphery or where the vertical is from the horizontal. The drift is a supposed ripple effect...

Okay, first off we should get the horrible words out of the way. As with prose, so too with poetry, verbosity tends to weigh down language, and often not to anyone’s credit. So what do I mean by praxis? Praxis...