by Tracy Rittmueller | Oct 29, 2019 | Literary Poetry, Tuesday Conversations
His job is to measure the world precisely:nothing on his map except what’s actually there—Bill Meissner, The Mapmaker and His Woman In September, 2019, I met poet Bill Meissner at Jules Bistro in St. Cloud, to talk about his latest book, The...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Oct 22, 2019 | Song Lyrics, Tuesday Conversations
Take the air from my lungslike you did the first timewhen our eyes locked. –Adam Hammer, The Love You Take “The height of sophistication is simplicity,” Clare Luce Booth wrote in her 1931 novel, Stuffed Shirts. And the Abstract Impressionist painter Hans...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Oct 15, 2019 | Song Lyrics, Tuesday Conversations
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 with the mind but with the body and feelings—with our whole being,” Roger Housden writes in...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Oct 10, 2019 | Alt Lit
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, she says, “speaks to us when we’re most porous emotionally.”...
by Tracy Rittmueller | Oct 8, 2019 | Spoken Word
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. We are ALIVE! Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird, and Sarah Kay are three spoken word performers, published by...
