Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Tuesday Poem


The Tuesday Poem this week is "Lines excerpted from Bentleyisms" by Nelson Bentley, selected by US poet T. Clear:


T. Clear says:

I first encountered Nelson Bentley in 1974, at a summer writing seminar at Cornish College of the Arts. At the impressionable age of 17, I had no idea the impact this man would have on my life. As one of the dozen or so high school students in the room, I sat in awe as this gregarious man brought in a different poet every day to read to us from his/her work, and talk about the writer's life. Those two weeks made poetry real for me, began to build the foundation of a life with poetry at the center, something unfeasible to even imagine prior to this.

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