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On Friday, May 21, I spoke with poet, professor and friend, Stuart Dischell, whom I met in a most romantic setting although we were not romantically involved: Mojácar, Spain at La Fundación Valparaiso, an artist's residency where we were both engaged in our separate writing projects. In that time, we came together for meals, heated philosophical discussions, and field trips with our fellow artists to desert beaches, beer bars, desolate Valencia's Roman ruins, and the red rock fortress of Alhambra in Granada. In this episode, I read his poem, "Good Hope Road", the same as the title of his volume of poetry of that name.  And, here is the poem that I asked Stuart to read: For the Anniversary of My Death BY W. S. MERWIN Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Then I will no longer Find myself in life as in a strange garment Surprised at the earth And the love of one woman And the shamelessness of men As today writing after three days of rain Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease And bowing not knowing to what W. S. Merwin, “For the Anniversary of My Death” from The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc. BIOGRAPHY Stuart Dischell was born in Atlantic City, NJ. He is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings &amp; Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days and Children With Enemies (2017) and the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey (2013) and the chapbook Standing on Z (2017).  His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems.  He is a recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation,  He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. (Photo Credit: Cyril Caine, Looking for Mr. Dischell, a forthcoming film about his life and work by another artist whom we met at the same residency).

On Friday, May 21, I spoke with poet, professor and friend, Stuart Dischell, whom I met in a most romantic setting although we were not romantically involved: Mojácar, Spain at La Fundación Valparaiso, an artist's residency where we were both engaged in our separate writing projects. In that time, we came together for meals, heated philosophical discussions, and field trips with our fellow artists to desert beaches, beer bars, desolate Valencia's Roman ruins, and the red rock fortress of Alhambra in Granada. In this episode, I read his poem, "Good Hope Road", the same as the title of his volume of poetry of that name.  And, here is the poem that I asked Stuart to read: For the Anniversary of My Death BY W. S. MERWIN Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Then I will no longer Find myself in life as in a strange garment Surprised at the earth And the love of one woman And the shamelessness of men As today writing after three days of rain Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease And bowing not knowing to what W. S. Merwin, “For the Anniversary of My Death” from The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by W. S. Merwin. Reprinted with the permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc. BIOGRAPHY Stuart Dischell was born in Atlantic City, NJ. He is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings &amp; Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days and Children With Enemies (2017) and the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey (2013) and the chapbook Standing on Z (2017).  His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems.  He is a recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation,  He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. (Photo Credit: Cyril Caine, Looking for Mr. Dischell, a forthcoming film about his life and work by another artist whom we met at the same residency).

Hot Thoughts Made Cool: Stuart Dischell On Writing Poetry 

Episode #25. Emily and her husband Jake own a mobile fitness boutique The Shoebus operating from a refurbished 1977 VW Bus. Find out about their unique business model, why they chose Greensboro as their home base, and their upcoming inaugural event Hit the Brixx. Stuart Dischell, creative writing professor at the University of NC at Greensboro, reads three poems from his book Children with Enemies. (Date: 9/21/18)

Episode #25. Emily and her husband Jake own a mobile fitness boutique The Shoebus operating from a refurbished 1977 VW Bus. Find out about their unique business model, why they chose Greensboro as their home base, and their upcoming inaugural event Hit the Brixx. Stuart Dischell, creative writing professor at the University of NC at Greensboro, reads three poems from his book Children with Enemies. (Date: 9/21/18)

Stuart Dischell, local poet and professor, with Shoebus fitness entrepreneurs Emily and Jake Morris