T R AV E L
An Arkansas Way of Seeing
HOW ARKANSAS TEACHES US TO WRITE POETRY
words ALLEN SCHAIDLE // images DAVIS NORWOOD AND MATT JOHNSGARD
My poetry is really just trail mud and crooked handwriting that usually starts with something tiny, like the thud of my feet in leaf mush or fog draped over a holler. Arkansas keeps throwing moments like these at me. My job is mostly not to miss them. People ask how I write. I don’t. The landscape writes. I just run, bike, walk, or sit long enough for the words to catch up.
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