Doug Anderson3 days ago1 minMinds of the Rich: Part IMINDS 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 AndersonMay 82 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 AndersonMay 81 minMASTURBATION AND THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENTI have heard that when Athens outlawed masturbation, Diogenes went to the public square and masturbated, inviting other men to join him....
Doug AndersonMay 61 minIRONIC FORCE FIELDYo 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 AndersonMay 42 minMEAN MOUTHSThinking 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 AndersonApr 232 minBe Whole Again Beyond ConfusionBe Whole Again Beyond Confusion* I break into the empty farmhouse and wander the rooms. There, pencil marks on the kitchen door where...
Doug AndersonApr 191 minTo the Person Who Reads Unsolicited Submissions at the New Yorker#poetryTo the Person Who Reads the Unsolicited Poetry Submissions at the New Yorker I really don’t hate you even though you took fifteen months...
Doug AndersonApr 181 minPut Your Hand In My WoundEASTER, 2022 And the wind blew the buds off the trees, scattering red across the black road. Jesus out of his tomb and wandering among...
Doug AndersonApr 183 minSelling BuddhismThe Hand of Buddha, Metropolitan Museum of Art I don’t mind paying my meditation teacher for his classes. He has to eat and pay his rent...
Doug AndersonApr 151 min"AMATEUR"Thinking about the word "amateur." According to the dictionary it means one who engages in an unpaid pursuit. It's usually a negative...
Doug AndersonMar 203 minUkraine, Hypocrisy, and That Thing With FeathersUnexploded American Bomb at the Village of Dong Loc, Vietnam Because of my angry response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I have been...
Doug AndersonMar 41 minBULLSHIT AS PRACTICE FOR WRITERSI‘ve never had writer’s block. I can always write something but sometimes I wish I hadn’t. I can always delete it if it’s merely glib or...
Doug AndersonMar 32 minWRITERS' BLOCK(Sappho, Metropolitan Museum of Art) Step out into the day and observe Mr. Hubert who is mowing his lawn at six AM on Sunday out of...
Doug AndersonMar 33 minNOT A BUDDHIST BUDDHISTI've been doing a Buddhist practice now for some years. I'm not a Buddhist. I'm not "enlightened" nor do I see myself as superior to...
Doug AndersonFeb 131 minMORAL INJURYMoral Injury: "A betrayal, by a person in authority, in a high stakes situation." Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in...
Doug AndersonFeb 23 minTHE PANDEMIC: FIGHTING WITH OURSELVES AND WITH EACH OTHERI'm finding that being alive right now, in this country, with its polarized antipathies, to be very hard. I would love to feel that I'm...
Doug AndersonJan 121 minTHE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEFImage from Moving Water, a work in progress by the Serious Play Theater Ensemble. What happened to the "willing suspension of disbelief"...
Doug AndersonJan 102 minCOVID, ALIENATION, AND RESTAURANTSCOMMUNITY 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 AndersonJan 71 minHARD ASSESI 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 AndersonDec 21, 20211 minPERFORMANCE OF A PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SELFVenice Beach, 1997 The metaverse has created new modes of performance. We are all performing in it. I am performing right now, presenting...