Poet’s Passage (Jim Carroll)
Poet, novelist, and rocker Jim Carroll died on September 11, 2009. He was 60 years old. I wrote the following at the funeral at Our Lady of Pompeii in Greenwich Village.
The Near Future
What will the word "human" mean/in 2025, not that far away, really/when everybody will be in possession/of one little room the size of their heads/dreaming revelatory dreams?
Why Mrs. Blake Cried
In William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision, Marsha Keith Schuchard makes a strange and compelling case that Blake's imaginative universe was deeply shaped by a thriving London subculture of spiritual sexuality.
The Kosmic Karma of an Integral Poet
Postmodern artists of the world, I assure you there is now a way to make it all cohere. Or at least come closer than we’ve seen for a very long time. Join us in making "Art for Spirit's sake."