Category: James Broughton

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.