To Each Our Own
This is part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the full series here. Before ending, (or perhaps the better word is interrupting), this ongoing discussion of voice, which began with a gift from Allen Ginsberg teaching us […]
Words as Art Objects
This is part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the full series here. At heart a visual person as well as a lover of words, in addition to a unique and identifiable voice, what most captivates me […]
Sabotaging Voice
This is part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the full series here. Little wonder we poets have our own writing defenses— ways of subverting or otherwise muting the voice. The most obvious of course is the […]
Voice
This is part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the full series here. As critical as voice is to our poems, few talk about it—what it is, how we ‘find’ it, what interferes with or enhances it–this […]
A Mentor
This is part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the full series here. A friend told me about Molly Peacock whose work I greatly admired—she took private students and was very supportive without sacrificing the rigors of […]
Envy
This is part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the full series here. My sense of isolation intensified even further when my own envy erupted. Over the years in therapy, I confronted the enormous storm that […]
The Beginnings of Speech
This is part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the full series here. But after the relief of making a commitment to learn to write, that would not be easy. Because I was still so convinced […]
Depression
This is second part an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” You can see the first part here. I came to writing late in life, and, as a result, I live life with the wind at my back. After several professional […]
Two Kinds of Silence
This is the first part of an essay I wrote for The Tampa Review titled, “Poems and the Psyche: The Threat of Making Art, One Writer’s Journey.” More is to come! One of my regrets as a developing writer was that I didn’t get to hear other writers’ stories. As a psychologist, I was aware […]