In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of ...

It takes sometimes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving ... Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas; Poems with lies in them, but they help a little. Robert Bly is the author ...

Poetry might be like friendship ... a generative place to discover new sensations or architectures of feeling in a poem. Some might call it sadness. I don’t. I call it consciousness and like to think ...