Pamela Yates, figurative abstract painter, conceptual artist, andl creativity coach talks with Eric Maisel today about writing and recovery issues.

Deborah Robson’s Independent Stitch
Deb is a writer, artist, and independent publisher. Her blog discusses knitting, writing, spinning, independent publishing, and similar quests.
Deb and Eric chat about where the Ten Zen Seconds technique came from, how culture interferes with our ability to center, and how Eric makes personal use of the TZS method.
Deb has just set […]

Jorge Luis Borges is one of my favorite authors. Here are quotes on the art of living and writing poetry. Also, please check out this South American blog Artevirgo with its post of “Arte Poetica de Jorge Luis Borges.”–JGR
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is […]

Patsy Terrell chats with Eric Maisel today on the topic of happiness.

Reader Views is featuring Daddy ‘n me this week. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page, and boom–there we are, photos and all.
It might not be there later, so here’s what they say:
Father and daughter authors present Family Story Workshop and Reading
An old-timer at 91 years-young, Erwin Thompson, author of Cattle Country and […]

Eric Maisel continues his blogtour today with a discussion of parenting and step-parenting at Jennifer Newcomb Marine’s blog. How can both parties get along and be at peace to provide better parenting?

In an article originally published in American Poet, the biannual journal published by the Academy of American Poets for its members, Eavan Boland talked about a “transnational poetics.” I was particularly fascinated by her comparison and contrast of American and Irish culture and the poetic communities each country fostered–and how this shaped the poetry that […]

Eric Maisel’s Blogtour for Ten Zen Seconds Begins Today on Brenda Johima’s Creative Nudge
You can see the entire tour schedule with the description of each person and what will be discussed at the official Ten Zen Seconds site.

I was fascinated by the premise of this essay. “There are far too few daughters in poetry.” –JGR
Daughters in Poetry
by Eavan Boland
There are far too few daughters in poetry. They turn up surprisingly rarely in nineteenth century poems, considering how they crowded into the available fictional equivalents. So it’s a relief to start […]

My friend Stephanie Farrow, a marvelous poet in her own right, sent me this poem today, as one she enjoys. I thought you might enjoy it as well.
Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet
by Eavan Boland
How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals—had all
one fine day gone […]