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

7 days ago
1 min

PEOPLE LIVED HERE

PEOPLE LIVED HERE I love to break into abandoned houses in spite of the cover-your-ass no trespassing signs. Exhale of wind moves a rag...

Doug Anderson

Jan 12
1 min

THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

Image from Moving Water, a work in progress by the Serious Play Theater Ensemble. What happened to the "willing suspension of disbelief"...

Doug Anderson

Jan 10
2 min

COVID, ALIENATION, AND RESTAURANTS

COMMUNITY Even introverts are having a hard time these days. I like my solitude, but not this much. I spend most of my time in front of...

Doug Anderson

Jan 7
1 min

HARD ASSES

I grew up with hardasses. Some of them had earned their hardass badge--the depression, poverty, etc. But they weren't a lot of fun to be...

Doug Anderson

Dec 21, 2021
1 min

PERFORMANCE OF A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SELF

Venice Beach, 1997 The metaverse has created new modes of performance. We are all performing in it. I am performing right now, presenting...

Doug Anderson

Dec 10, 2021
3 min

THE SINGLES AD

Window of Evolution, Soho, New York I’ve never composed a single’s ad, nor have I visited one of the many coupling websites. Of all their...

Doug Anderson

Dec 9, 2021
2 min

REINCARNATION AS DESIRE, MYSTERY AND NOT-KNOWING

David Flavin, Untitled DIA Beacon (figures are gallery visitors) The more conservative iterations of Theravada Buddhism posit thirty-one...

Doug Anderson

Dec 1, 2021
5 min

A LITTLE CONSCIOUS NARCISSISM

Ugolino and His Sons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Narcissism has become such a term of condemnation we seem to forget we're all...

Doug Anderson

Nov 24, 2021
2 min

The Metropolitan Museum, an Expanse of Art so Rich and Vast it Alters My Sense of Time

There is no way I could see all of the museum in a day. My senses and mind would overload. It's enough to make me want to live in New...

Doug Anderson

Nov 18, 2021
1 min

Last Things

Sculptor Ledelle Moe, When, Mass MOCA Installation He said, no politics on this site and I said no politics is a political statement he...

DOUG

ANDERSON

PEOPLE LIVED HERE

THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

COVID, ALIENATION, AND RESTAURANTS

HARD ASSES

PERFORMANCE OF A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SELF

THE SINGLES AD

REINCARNATION AS DESIRE, MYSTERY AND NOT-KNOWING

A LITTLE CONSCIOUS NARCISSISM

The Metropolitan Museum, an Expanse of Art so Rich and Vast it Alters My Sense of Time

Last Things

DOUG ANDERSON'S BOOKS