Blog was a word unknown to Thomas, who wrote when he was 19: “It is part of a poet’s job to take a debauched and prostituted word, like the beautiful word ‘blonde’, and to smooth out the lines of its dissipation, and to put it on the market again, fresh and virgin.”  These lines [...]

An excerpt from Robert Bly’s reading of Ranier Maria Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ connects the chthonic (of or relating to the underworld) to creative expression and joyous experience. “Orpheus descended to the underworld and to the dark side of the psyche. Poetry doesn’t mean much unless the writer has experienced the dark side…Rilke suggests that [...]

Each of the puppet characters in Ship of Fools is inspired by a person or concept characterized by their non adherence to what is considered reasonable, logical or sane. Folly or “un-reason” has had many different manifestations throughout the ages. Rather than portraying what I consider to be illogical or foolish, I have made the [...]