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    Rodin Vibrant at the Clark Museum
    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...
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    Brief Essay on Poetic Form
    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...
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    Pandemic Isolation and its Emotional Consequences
    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...
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    Minds of the Rich: Part I
    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...
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    #POETRY: Turning the Garden of Language
    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...
    44 views0 comments
    MASTURBATION AND THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT
    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....
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    IRONIC FORCE FIELD
    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...
    52 views1 comment
    MEAN MOUTHS
    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...
    34 views3 comments
    Be Whole Again Beyond Confusion
    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...
    357 views1 comment
    To the Person Who Reads Unsolicited Submissions at the New Yorker#poetry
    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...
    168 views1 comment
    Put Your Hand In My Wound
    Doug Anderson
    • Apr 18
    • 1 min

    Put Your Hand In My Wound

    EASTER, 2022 And the wind blew the buds off the trees, scattering red across the black road. Jesus out of his tomb and wandering among...
    167 views0 comments
    Selling Buddhism
    Doug Anderson
    • Apr 18
    • 3 min

    Selling Buddhism

    The 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...
    64 views1 comment
    "AMATEUR"
    Doug Anderson
    • Apr 15
    • 1 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...
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    Ukraine, Hypocrisy, and That Thing With Feathers
    Doug Anderson
    • Mar 20
    • 3 min

    Ukraine, Hypocrisy, and That Thing With Feathers

    Unexploded American Bomb at the Village of Dong Loc, Vietnam Because of my angry response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I have been...
    209 views0 comments
    BULLSHIT AS PRACTICE FOR WRITERS
    Doug Anderson
    • Mar 4
    • 1 min

    BULLSHIT AS PRACTICE FOR WRITERS

    I‘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...
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    WRITERS' BLOCK
    Doug Anderson
    • Mar 3
    • 2 min

    WRITERS' 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...
    89 views1 comment
    NOT A BUDDHIST BUDDHIST
    Doug Anderson
    • Mar 3
    • 3 min

    NOT A BUDDHIST BUDDHIST

    I'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...
    102 views3 comments
    MORAL INJURY
    Doug Anderson
    • Feb 13
    • 1 min

    MORAL INJURY

    Moral Injury: "A betrayal, by a person in authority, in a high stakes situation." Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in...
    25 views0 comments
    THE PANDEMIC: FIGHTING WITH OURSELVES AND WITH EACH OTHER
    Doug Anderson
    • Feb 2
    • 3 min

    THE PANDEMIC: FIGHTING WITH OURSELVES AND WITH EACH OTHER

    I'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...
    126 views1 comment
    THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF
    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"...
    39 views0 comments
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