Check These Out

To hold my readers until I can post another poem (Mary Oliver is up next), here's a link to a very entertaining article about the value of poetry up against, e.g., mathematics. Also, I am not alone in thinking
George Oppen deserves a wider audience.

Why Keep Going?

"Art [is] as old as civilization. If one can add one thing to so long a history, one color or shape or tone, one perception to so long a history, that is a great deal to do." —George Oppen

More on this fine and too-little known American poet here and here.