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David Biespiel

David Biespiel

Pretending to Pretend

I 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, 2015

Oct 21, 2015

David Biespiel

Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Taking 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, 2015

Oct 17, 2015

David Biespiel

The Poem As Whistling Father

When 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, 2015

Oct 17, 2015

David Biespiel

David Biespiel has a drink with Christopher Hitchens

ON NOVEMBER 13, 2001, four weeks after President George W. Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom with the United Kingdom to overthrow…

Oct 17, 2015

Oct 17, 2015

David Biespiel

The Poet’s Journey

Whether 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, 2015

Feb 22, 2015

David Biespiel

A Scream of Consciousness

I 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, 2015

Feb 22, 2015

David Biespiel

Are 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, 2015

Feb 22, 2015

David Biespiel

Can Poetry Survive?

A hideous paradox.

Nov 12, 2013

Can Poetry Survive?

Nov 12, 2013

David Biespiel

How to Revise Your Writing

Leading a reader to re-see the world, to experience a re-vision of their living life.

Nov 10, 2013

How to Revise Your Writing

Nov 10, 2013

David Biespiel

What Is Lyric Poetry?

“Lyric poetry must nourish. Must delight. Must spiritualize. Must mythologize. Otherwise it’s science without God.”

Nov 9, 2013

What Is Lyric Poetry?

Nov 9, 2013

David Biespiel

David Biespiel

David Biespiel is the recipient of Lannan, NEA, and Stegner Fellowships. He is the author of numerous books, most recently A LONG HIGH WHISTLE.

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