You can’t rush inspiration, especially if there's no motivation. (Hey, that rhymes!) ...
Clive James' most anthologized poem is commonly known by its first two lines: "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered/And I Am Pleased." Those lines tell the uninitiated almost all they need to ...
I keep a small notepad and a pen in my pocket. And when I’m providing writing workshops, I encourage my students to do the same. You don’t want to be fumbling about, frantically scrambling for a place ...
Do you ever just want to quote someone forever? Reading Clive James’ Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language, struggling to find ways to talk about it, I dreamed of Echo, the nymph ...