The Mapmaker’s Dream: Bill Meissner on measuring the world precisely, to establish connection between us
Bill Meissner talks with Lyricality’s Tracy Rittmueller about his latest book, The Mapmaker’s Dream, and the ways poetry connects us.
Bill Meissner talks with Lyricality’s Tracy Rittmueller about his latest book, The Mapmaker’s Dream, and the ways poetry connects us.
For Adam Hammer, songwriting is necessary because he simply cannot not do it. Although his recently released single “The Love You Take” is finding significant airplay on Minnesota’s public and independent radio stations, and that’s exhilarating, of course, success or popularity is not what drives him to write. “Songwriting is just something I can’t seem to put down,” he said.
There’s a truth out there, a reality that wants to be expressed.Delores Dufner, OSB “The soul wants heart knowledge, a felt sense of the truth that we register not just
Poems are like atomic particles with latent power. Tracy Rittmueller In the history of human culture, poetry is an important, primary experience. Maria Popova calls poetry an “adrenalizing force.” Poetry,
Spoken Word performers lift poems off the page and breathe them into the air between us in a way that can turn the wreckage of our tragedies into a celebration.