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Totally agree. What might make a connection between one artist and the receiver of the art can have no effect on another person. Such is...

“Never use the word ‘audience.’ The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don’t have an...

Really? It's common in the US, but obviously was never exported to Oz.

I know that Chicago is considered one of the Holy Cities of frankfurters (which incidently, I've never encountered in Frankfurt...

Just dudes being guys, drinkin at the bar and talkin about their wieners.

Turning to the idea of subversion in writing/story structure – here is a bit of info about the difference between subversions and...

It doesn't matter what you write, as long as you write. But non-fiction has different standards of verity than fiction does, and readers...

Reminds me of that adage "You can never step in the same river twice, because it is not the same water, and you are not the same...

Are we in a constant state of being, or becoming?

I came across a quote in Facebook whose origin I'd like to track down. It said, basically, that in a poetry reading there is really no...

It's our secret weapon. But it's challenged every day.

Good advice. I guess that is adapting. I think the greatest adaptation of the human species is our adaptability.

Sounds pretty melodramatic to me. How about something as simple as "'change' as a noun means transformation from one state or condition...

Mark Twain on the German language: "Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him...

I'd go with the German derivation. The difference between that and snuggling or cuddling is that it's not something you would do with a...