David BiespielPretending to PretendI hadn’t been living on Glenville Ave. with Giff, Nick, and Paul very long when a woman who’d recently graduated from BU — and with whom…Oct 21, 2015Oct 21, 2015
David BiespielPedagogy Of The OppressedTaking advantage of a diving scholarship, which paid my tuition, I enrolled at Boston University in 1982. I was in a hurry to leave Texas…Oct 17, 2015Oct 17, 2015
David BiespielThe Poem As Whistling FatherWhen I was a boy in east Texas my father used to take me to the beach on Galveston Island. With my older brothers and our dog, Velvet, a…Oct 17, 2015Oct 17, 2015
David BiespielDavid Biespiel has a drink with Christopher HitchensON NOVEMBER 13, 2001, four weeks after President George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom with the United Kingdom to overthrow…Oct 17, 2015Oct 17, 2015
David BiespielThe Poet’s JourneyWhether you acid-kick your spirit into some trance of the star-stuff of your imagination, or study each of the languages of the seven…Feb 22, 2015Feb 22, 2015
David BiespielA Scream of ConsciousnessI often feel that my day to day experiences border between the routine and the ordinary. I’ve come to think of my attention to these…Feb 22, 2015Feb 22, 2015
David BiespielAre violent jihadists the new postmodernists?We live in a world overflowing with cynicism about the meaning of language and the power of metaphor. For decades we’ve needed to look no…Feb 22, 2015Feb 22, 2015
David BiespielHow to Revise Your WritingLeading a reader to re-see the world, to experience a re-vision of their living life.Nov 10, 2013Nov 10, 2013
David BiespielWhat Is Lyric Poetry?“Lyric poetry must nourish. Must delight. Must spiritualize. Must mythologize. Otherwise it’s science without God.”Nov 9, 2013Nov 9, 2013