F. Daniel Rzicznek: An Online Profile

Djelloul Marbrook on his blog has both an interesting profile of F. Daniel Rzicznek and an insightful look at poetry and writing in general. Rzicznek is the author of Cloud Tablets and a winner of the Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Competition.

Here is from Djelloul's post, "F. Daniel Rzicznek: the inner poem":

As I read F. Daniel Rzicznek’s Neck of the World I thought of certain painters who would have been familiar with the poet’s country, not just his natural world but his interior world. The fifty-seven poems in this award-winning collection have such a distinct interiority that we understand implicitly that they only seem to be about the natural world but are in fact about everything we are capable of apprehending.

Poets almost always push this particular envelope. A culture relies on them to do this for it. A society relies on its poets to explore the outer limits of its collective sensibility, and whether the poet is a rapper or a professor makes little difference in this light.