a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
thenewgreen  ·  4008 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Interview With Rico Manalo

    Poems are magic because they are spells designed to create a particular experience for a reader/listener. The writer crafts the poem with intention, but can only guess at what that experience will be: the consumer is not usually known to the writer. Magic is slippery stuff and relies heavily on the human touch to succeed, if at all.
-That's a great way of looking at it.

There is definitely a transformation that can happen after reading a poem. This is a magical process, no doubt about it.

I enjoy your poems Rico, I enjoyed reading your take on poetry too. Great interview!