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