Interviews & Posts Tagged ' music '

• July, 2010 Jericho Brown Writes What’s On His Mind

  Tags: abuse, line breaks, love, music, poetry, punctuation
  Published in Interviews

  

  “I think we’ve been telling our students so long, ‘Write what you know. Write your lived experience,’ and I think our students have this idea that that means write about the time A, B, and C happened to me, but that’s not really it. It’s more, write what you can’t stop thinking about. Write what’s on your mind.”
• December, 2008 Creating the Chorus: Joshua Kryah and the Question of Faith

  Tags: faith, language, music, poetry, quotation
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  “…the poem that is crafted as well as it can be crafted sometimes winds up just ’saying’ something; it’s saying this about language, or it’s saying this about faith, or it’s saying this about the Beloved, or the condition of love. Whereas right now what I want to do is speak. I want, not to pronounce, but to let the poems go further than they usually have, or that I’ve allowed them to go.”