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The Mapmaker’s Dream: Bill Meissner on measuring the world precisely, to establish connection between us

The Mapmaker’s Dream: Bill Meissner on measuring the world precisely, to establish connection between us

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...
The Recovery of Simplicity: Songwriter Adam Hammer on “The Love You Take”

The Recovery of Simplicity: Songwriter Adam Hammer on “The Love You Take”

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...
The Knowledge and Mystery of Truth: Delores Dufner on Words that Want to be Said

The Knowledge and Mystery of Truth: Delores Dufner on Words that Want to be Said

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...
Alt-Lit: #instagrampoets Benjamin Aleshire, Pavana Reddy, and Atticus, and the Democratization of Poetry

Alt-Lit: #instagrampoets Benjamin Aleshire, Pavana Reddy, and Atticus, and the Democratization of Poetry

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.”...
How to Survive Tragedy: Button Poets Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird and Sarah Kay offer words to build hope

How to Survive Tragedy: Button Poets Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird and Sarah Kay offer words to build hope

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...

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