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

Sep 13
1 min

QUESTIONS

Questions Can you be kind can you forgive petty things and even some bad ones Can you see the wisdom of Horace I Am Human Therefore...

Doug Anderson

Sep 8
1 min

THE CURSE OF LIVING LONG

Is to see the wheel turn twice. In the sixties we at once took off our clothes and a deadening morality. It was, as we saw, not moral. We...

Doug Anderson

Jul 27
1 min

LANGUAGE COMES FROM THE BODY

Language comes from the body. When babies learn language, they make movements, as if they are taking the words into their body, making...

Doug Anderson

Jul 25
7 min

The Gravestone and the Continuing Self

When I was in my twenties I thought old age was an island only accessible by a bridge I’d never cross. But I’ve crossed it, and at...

Doug Anderson

Jul 25
1 min

SPACE JUNK

MIT MUSEUM The sky is clotted. Tangled. Vapor trails, blinking lights of low flying aircraft. The stars are moving away from us, becoming...

Doug Anderson

Jul 23
3 min

MOVING WATER Performed by The Serious Play Theater Ensemble. Contact kofest.com for tickets.

Moving Water is on stage at A.P.E., 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA MOVING WATER For the last two years I’ve had the privilege of...

Doug Anderson

Jul 18
1 min

The Many Deaths

According to various spiritual traditions there are two deaths; one at the end of life, and one when the false self dies within life,...

Doug Anderson

Jul 15
1 min

Love comes across the field to me, a small bird to land at my feet.

Detail from The Couple, by Louise Bourgeois It was my work to live through the wound of love. A child without it, I blindly swam through...

Doug Anderson

Jul 14
1 min

I WAS TOWING THE BOAT OF MY YOUTH

I was towing the boat of my youth. It was slowing me down. So I cut the hawser and let it drift. I can see it still, fainter every day, a...

Doug Anderson

Jul 11
2 min

ART: OLD BAD, NEW GOOD

Semantics: when I say art, I also mean poetry, music, etc. There must be a word for the reflexive tendency to reject the old in favor of...

DOUG

ANDERSON

QUESTIONS

THE CURSE OF LIVING LONG

LANGUAGE COMES FROM THE BODY

The Gravestone and the Continuing Self

SPACE JUNK

MOVING WATER Performed by The Serious Play Theater Ensemble. Contact kofest.com for tickets.

The Many Deaths

Love comes across the field to me, a small bird to land at my feet.

I WAS TOWING THE BOAT OF MY YOUTH

ART: OLD BAD, NEW GOOD

DOUG ANDERSON'S BOOKS