Comments on: Weekly Prose Feature: “My Abilities Are Ridiculous: On Poetry and the Occasional Crisis of Faith” by Emilia Phillips http://www.32poems.com/blog/4865/weekly-prose-feature-my-abilities-are-ridiculous-on-poetry-and-the-occasional-crisis-of-faith-by-emilia-phillips Fri, 17 May 2013 19:26:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lorilyn Wiering http://www.32poems.com/blog/4865/weekly-prose-feature-my-abilities-are-ridiculous-on-poetry-and-the-occasional-crisis-of-faith-by-emilia-phillips/comment-page-1#comment-122874 Lorilyn Wiering Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:45:44 +0000 http://www.32poems.com/?p=4865#comment-122874 Thank you, thank you. My Muse is mute, simply enjoying the beautiful feast you prepared, savoring it.

]]> By: Hank_Bonmot http://www.32poems.com/blog/4865/weekly-prose-feature-my-abilities-are-ridiculous-on-poetry-and-the-occasional-crisis-of-faith-by-emilia-phillips/comment-page-1#comment-122824 Hank_Bonmot Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:50:40 +0000 http://www.32poems.com/?p=4865#comment-122824 I feel a strong connection with this text. A few weeks ago, I introduced a unit of poetry to a class of eighth graders. I read from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s What is Poetry. At the same time, a few years prior, I was asked what my passion was. I answered, “Poetry.” It’s strange to think how confident I was in my one word response because, since then, I have felt that hesitance, the shame I suppose, of such a desire to write and do nothing else. The struggle of understanding and justifying what poetry is and why it’s written does not seem to let up. I admire your persistence. For your ability to convey what poetry is with poetry, I am thankful.

]]> By: Ric Couchman http://www.32poems.com/blog/4865/weekly-prose-feature-my-abilities-are-ridiculous-on-poetry-and-the-occasional-crisis-of-faith-by-emilia-phillips/comment-page-1#comment-122816 Ric Couchman Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:29:32 +0000 http://www.32poems.com/?p=4865#comment-122816 I enjoyed this piece. Thanks for sharing.

Ric

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