"One thing I love about poetry is its honesty about the human mind. Minds are weird (though I’m sure you already know that). They are wired for making meaning, but do so in odd, specific ways. How is X like Y? How am I a part of the world, and how is the world a part of me? We even have a tendency, called apophenia, to see patterns in information that is inherently meaningless. A specific form of this is pareidolia, in which we tend to see human faces in things that are faceless. Think: the man in the moon."
Read a stunning poem by Kaveh Akbar, "What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around", and enjoy an article by Maria Popova on the creative process.
The final questions Glatch leaves us with in his article: "How do you use your writing process to find or create meaning in the world? What are you trying to explain? What is your neurotic obsession? Your writing is your lifetime’s answer to these questions, but it never hurts to think about them head-on."
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