Ackerman's reading

1.  I've learned to write prose, too, and that has brought its own frustrations and freedoms. (?) Why?  What do you frustrate about?
2.  In both genres, writing is my form of celebration and prayer, but it's also the way in which I explore the world, sometimes writing about nature, sometimes about human nature.
3.  The real source of my creativity continues to be poetry.
4.  There is nothing like poetry to throw light into the dark coroners of existence, and make life's runaway locomotive slow down for a moment so that it can be enjoyed.
5.  Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.
6.  The apparent subject of a poem isn't always an end in itself.  It may really be an opportunity, a way for the poet to reach in and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition is distracting at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.
7.  As many have pointed out, poetry is a kind of knowing, a way of looking at the ordinary until it becomes special and the exceptional until it becomes commonplace. (?). Does that mean teaching us to be special as an ordinary person till make the extrordinary to commonplace again?