
Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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How to Balance Dark and Light Within a Poem Is Really Practice
i want to spend an extra moment with something you said at the very beginning of your last answer, which was to learn how to balance dark and light within a poem is really practice. Um, you've talked about how you think of poetry as having a healing power. And i know you call yourself an atheist. But let's say a repeated affirmative yes. It has the field to me of a spiritual practice, the way certain practices are ritualized and repeated. Yes, it does make sense. All writing to mer like the act of writing feels like a way of connecting write, as i'd said that before, like it feels like away of connecting in loving kindness meditation,. first learned
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