Amid ruin. Near the Ballard Bridge, Seattle, WA. (Sparkzy, 2005) 
(Read the entire article at Reckon’s blog or the original at Harper’s Magazine.)
Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems.
From a statement read at an event marking the release of Best American Poetry 2008, held last night at The New School, in New York City.
Mile 91. Pretty damn close to Gerlach, NV and Burning Man. (Sparkzy, August 2006)
SEED Magazine/ Moheb Costandi
“Why is something beautiful? David Hume argued that beauty exists not in things but “in the mind that contemplates them.” And everyone has at some point heard the old saw that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But Plato had a fanciful answer made to argue for a universal truth: In his world of forms, he claimed there existed a perfect Form of Beauty, which was imperfectly manifested in what we call beautiful. Despite the allure of Plato’s metaphorical claim, students of aesthetics have struggled to substantiate it. Evolutionary psychologists have argued that there exist quantifiable, describable, universal aspects to the human capacity for appreciating beautiful forms, perhaps originating in our ancestors’ experience on African savannas or in the need to find suitable mates. They have not solved the problem. However, recent work by several researchers at University College London…”
