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I think basically what bob and I can agree on is that theme, emotion, meaning--they're all intrinsically bound up in communication. The worth of a poem is determined on its ...

I take the middle road, because I have a typewriter! So I can't edit it, but I can still go really quickly and scan it in to the computer (which ...

I personally have never written a poem about love itself, just love and leave it at that, but I've written poetry based on the experience of being in love. I ...

What is a poem? What is the point of a poem? When it's there, sitting on the page, what is it meant to do? If it doesn't fulfill that, then ...

"Having the world to play with kind of... deflects the need." -- James Gabriel "I had a dog. I ran away after I gave it cybernetic legs. Pissed at me ...

Long, long ago, longer ago than the War of Lythxenvaldwen, before the first Dwarves of Krunknimakkel had gone forth to mine jewels from the bowells of Mount Ubitinuknuk, a fair ...

"Once upon a time there was a novel that ate people's faces once they'd read the first two sentences. Well, hey: you can't win 'em all, can you?"

"I was built to kill; I could shoot an angel off a pinhead at two hundred meters, but you know what? I wouldn't even need my eyes for that." -- ...

I'm reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbera Kingsolver. It's a book I try to read at least once a year, so its power over me never lessens. Because it's one ...

"When you're in our position, the future is whatever you make of it; that might not sound like much, but it's not just our future we're talking about, it's for ...

Spectacular, one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking Christian-themed books I've ever read. Of course, there's plenty more that's just as amazing by Lewis; Mere Christianity and Till We Hav

I don't know if I'd have ever written or even seriously read poetry if it hadn't been for a chance encounter with Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson: reading through that ...

"When you're the kind of person who needs to shut out the world every so often and some more on top of that, the best thing you could ever do ...

Er... Well, there's my room. It used to be fairly cleanable and so forth. There's six shelf levels from floor to roof in the corner, all double packed, so that's ...

I'll defend Ender's Game to the death. You; me; shotgun wedding. My heroine!