By All Means Break The Rules, And

In The Nineteenth Century, Which Was A Dark And Inflationary Age In Typography, Man Compositors Were Encouraged To Stuff Extra Space Between Sentences. Generations Of Twentieth-century Typists Were Then Taught To Do The Same, By Hitting The Spacebar Twice After Every Period. Your Typing As Well As Your Typesetting Will Benefit From Unlearning This Quaint Victorian Habit.

Every Native North American Text I've Ever Grappled With Has Taught Me Something Important About How To Live On The Continent Where I Was Born.

To Design Things Means To Interfere With Things: To Think Of How They Might Be And To Alter How They Are. Design Is To Making As Writing Is To Speech: It Is An Ordinary Physical Activity Pushed To A Conscious Edge. That Interference With The Given World Can Still Be Founded On Admiration. Where It Is Not, What Is The Point Of Designing At All?

How Much Money You Get, Depends On Lots Of Extraneous Things. It Depends On How Good You Are At Turning Poetry Into A Marketable Product, Which Is Something It Was Never Supposed To Be. That's Why Many People Suppose That The Better The Poet You Are The Lower Your Income Should Be, And That's Probably True.

Poetry, I'm Often Told, Is Something Made Of Words. I Think It Really Goes The Other Way Around: Words Are Made Of Poetry.