Baron Wormser on Silence, Solitude and Shakespeare

"There was a lot of solitude quiet and silence, and I believe poetry exists in relation to silence." Baron Wormser, a former National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellow, is here to talk about his eleventh collection of poetry, THE HISTORY HOTEL, and THE ROAD WASHES OUT IN SPRING , an account of a poet living life off the grid.  Tickets to Tom Branfoot launch that I'm hosting here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/boar-book-launch-tickets-733576425837 Rippling Points The rhythm of poetry, the poetry of jobs: how the different rhythms of the jobs Baron undertook in rural Maine influenced his poetry  A chance of tragedy: Baron's philosophy of tragedy, chance, and, ultimately, life Reference Points Charles Taylor - A Secular Age (Harvard University Press) Baron Wormer - Teach us That Peace (Piscataqua Press) Baron Wormser - Tom O'Vietnam (New Rivers Press) Emily Dickinson Robert Frost William Shakespeare Walt Whitman