on poetry
March 18, 2019
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
Stéphane Mallarmé
(March 18, 1842 – September 9, 1898)
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photo by Paul Nadar
community creativity from Whatcom County, Washington…and beyond
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
Stéphane Mallarmé
(March 18, 1842 – September 9, 1898)
. . . . .
photo by Paul Nadar
The Poetry Department is a project of freelance writer, poet, and past Boynton committee member J.I. Kleinberg. Feedback and suggestions welcome in any Comment field.