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Advice to Aspiring Poets: Creativity as Spirituality

Posted on September 17, 2014 by labeak52

Shelton College Quarterly’s interview of the school’s poet in residence, David Smith, continues below. When transcription is completed, the entirety of the interview will be published – in order – in the Quarterly. Ed.) SCQ: Do you want to leave … Continue reading →

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The Characteristics of Modern Poets #12

Posted on August 17, 2014 by labeak52

The mystic, having once seen the truth, is patient and brave. For him, there is no worship of counterfeit gold and no fear of counterfeit power.

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Evening Post, August 14. 2014

Posted on August 14, 2014 by labeak52

A memoir: a prose poem It is always August. There was something in those thirty days under the Dog Star that seemed permanent and everlasting. The weeks in June and July had been long enough to dim the memory of … Continue reading →

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Evening Post, August 13, 2014: Excerpt from Novel

Posted on August 13, 2014 by labeak52

This evening’s post is a passage from my novel,In The Forest Of The Night. It is a description of a state trooper (who is investigating a murder) driving from the rural coalfields of southern West Virginia to the State Capital. … Continue reading →