Poetry of Perception

Open Culture drew my attention to The Poetry of Perception project [http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/walt-whitman-emily-dickinson-william-carlos-williams-get-animated-by-harvards-neuroscience-department.html] . I thought Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself [https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/13/whitman-illuminated-song-of-myself-allen-crawford/] was hot when I found it a while ago, but these are eye- and mind-opening too.…

Election Day

The Paris Review [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/04/william-carlos-williamss-election-day/] shocked me into another kind of appreciation for election day by offering this 1941 poem by William Carlos Williams. > Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits > in the doorway of a broken house— boards for…