Quote of the Week 3
“As I told my wife, Julie, I’d rather have my poems appear in Earth First! Journal than in The Paris Review. No poetic posturing; poetry should matter more than that.”
–Tom Pynn
“As I told my wife, Julie, I’d rather have my poems appear in Earth First! Journal than in The Paris Review. No poetic posturing; poetry should matter more than that.”
–Tom Pynn
Tom Pynn is senior lecturer of interdisciplinary studies and currently coordinates both the Religious Studies Program and the Peace Corps Prep Program at Kennesaw State University. He earned both of his M.A.s from the University of Mississippi. His most recent publication is the chapter entitled “Radical Ritual Performance in the Early Prophetic Poetry of Bob Kaufman” published in Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the “HOWL” Generation (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2016).
Date: February 26, 2019