Writers on Faith and Reason
Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason . Portraits | PBS
With the buzz around the book and then the film version of THE DA VINCI CODE reaching a fever pitch and The PASSION OF THE CHRIST ranked among the 10 highest-grossing movies ever, what is it about religion that’s got America hooked? . . . In a world of information overload, occupied by cell phones, iPods, the Internet, and a thousand channels where do we turn for direction? Recently some of the world's most provocative writers were gathered in New York by the PEN American Center to take on the issues of faith and reason.
From Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason
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PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial hatreds and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship.
Guernica - a magazine of arts & politics
When I’m constructing a poem, I’m trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of the lines—some hold up better as lines than others. But I’m not thinking of just writing a paragraph and then chopping it up. I’m very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader’s attention back into the interior of the poem.
From Guernica Interview with Billy Collins