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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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