A Call to Action: Write the best poetry and give it freely
As seen in the journal Alternate Route , Issue 13, Spring 2024 Some poets pull from the minutiae of daily life. Other poets pull from their guts, seeking a pairing in the outside world – trying for a conduit between microbiome and biome, between enteric mind and visible matter. The truth is there's plenty of bad poetry passed as good poetry. Bad poetry is all or mostly in the conscious, while good poetry is rooted in the subconscious. Good poetry is plentiful but it can also frustrate when it allows the subconscious to rise only for the conscious to tamp it back down with the fury of a scholar who must translate fecundity into a solo language – table for one. Then there’s the poetry neither good nor bad in which the subconscious mind spins and reigns with libertine license – a grin turned sideways and used in place of the letter C. The best poetry, however, fuses the conscious and subconscious in a balanced flow of geometry and spindrift from flexed muscle. It is the subconscious ...

