While the following passage may seem like a lot to include, I think it’s important to make my point: My basic research shelves consist of around one hundred books, which represents 3 percent of my total collection, took me years to put together. These are the books I have within easy reach of my computer …
One thing to consider before asking yourself or anyone else the questions I pose below is to think about what the purpose of art (in general) is. Even as I focus mainly on poetry, I’m sure there are as many different reasons for writing poetry as there are poets, but personally I find there are …
Your muse, inspiration, spark, whatever you want to call it, doesn’t always come to you when you want it to. Several of the sources I used throughout this list have a plethora of prompts. For more general poetry prompts for the starting poet, The Mind’s Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Kevin Clark is …
I am still pretty young (not 30 yet) and if I’ve been camping and hiking a majority of my life, my parents have at least a decade’s more experience on me, so here’s a few tips from them, separated mainly into six categories: packing, sleeping, eating, drinking, clothing, and playing Packing Be good at playing …
Originally a page from my hobby blog Some of these words I discovered from Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day. Some are untranslateable words from other languages or created by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows or other sources. Nonetheless, these words I feel a personal connection with, or just find pretty. I hope you enjoy. Aesthete: Someone with deep …