What’s driving
Your Creativity?
Art is what makes us
Human.
Absolutely every aspect of our lives is creative in one way or another. We unconsciously consume the creativity that produced the cereal box we read the back of. We consciously choose the music or the podcast we listen to while we commute. The daily, mundane act of getting dressed relies on so many unseen creative inputs as the obvious creativity we experience when we go to a movie, or the theatre, or an art gallery, or our kids’ Christmas play, or wonder what that street art spray painted on the bridge support means.
Everything is Art…
…and while I love pretty much all art, I do spend more of my time paying attention to poetry, and imagery, and music which you’ll see reflected in the running list of my latest blog posts below. Or, read all of my archived posts here: Lunatic Engine, the Blog and sign up to get notified when a new post goes up
About the Blog: Named after my first book, which was published in 2020, Lunatic Engine the Blog is a collection of micro-reviews and short posts about the things that are driving my creativity, things that I hope will resonate with you, things I believe deserve more attention.
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Eight, “Brother Fire” by W.S. Piero
What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily…
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Seven, “Poetry” Magazine March, 2024
When was the last time you ran across a concrete poem? Poems whose words and line arrangements look like a physical object. You know, like George Herbert’s ‘Easter Wings’ which used to be on every high school English syllabus. This is a rabbit hole you can easily lose yourself down for days.
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Six, “City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology” edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
My desire to return to San Francisco is what is driving my creativity this morning.
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Five, “Attic Rain” by Samantha Jones
Samantha Jones and the Worry Maps of Doom is what is driving my creativity this week.
Paul Pearson 