DOUG

ANDERSON

Doug Anderson is an American poet, fiction writer, memoirist and photographer. His most recent book of poems is Horse Medicine

Honors and Awards: Pushcart Prize, NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) GRANT, The Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Poets & Writers Exchange an award from the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Aetna Award for Nonfiction and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship.

Doug Anderson

Jun 29
1 min

Rodin Vibrant at the Clark Museum

Rodin's sculptures were so anatomically perfect he was accused of having cast them from life. I've always found this strange: did they...

Doug Anderson

Jun 4
3 min

Brief Essay on Poetic Form

There is a continuing boring conversation among some "formal" vs "modernist" poets about whether prosody and end rhyme are better than...

Doug Anderson

May 25
2 min

Pandemic Isolation and its Emotional Consequences

Novalis: “The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the...

Doug Anderson

May 18
1 min

Minds of the Rich: Part I

MINDS OF THE RICH PART I Imputed to Diogenes by Strobaeus: 160. “Most rich people can be compared with fruit trees and vines that grow in...

Doug Anderson

May 8
2 min

#POETRY: Turning the Garden of Language

(From an installation by Jenny Holzer, MASS MoCA) We respond to life with language but we can create it with language as well. We all...

Doug Anderson

May 8
1 min

MASTURBATION AND THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT

I have heard that when Athens outlawed masturbation, Diogenes went to the public square and masturbated, inviting other men to join him....

Doug Anderson

May 6
1 min

IRONIC FORCE FIELD

Yo Twenty Something Editor If you write a poem about just being alive just the hard hurts of being human nobody wants it you got to...

Doug Anderson

May 4
2 min

MEAN MOUTHS

Thinking about sarcastic people. I don't mean someone who comes up with the occasional bit of barbed wit, but people who don't do...

Doug Anderson

Apr 23
2 min

Be Whole Again Beyond Confusion

Be Whole Again Beyond Confusion* I break into the empty farmhouse and wander the rooms. There, pencil marks on the kitchen door where...

Doug Anderson

Apr 19
1 min

To the Person Who Reads Unsolicited Submissions at the New Yorker#poetry

To the Person Who Reads the Unsolicited Poetry Submissions at the New Yorker I really don’t hate you even though you took fifteen months...

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