Jon Anderson Memorial Tribute
On February 29th, 2008 The Poetry Center hosted a memorial tribute in honor of poet Jon Anderson. Poet Charles Simic once said in conversation, “Jon taught us a new way of looking at ourselves.” In an interview for The Wall Street Journal, Jon explained, “My prime motive for writing is self-confrontation, and I find poems the best way to employ language to do this. My poetry isn’t for everyone. It’s for people like myself who want to contend with themselves. I think of my poems as intimate conversations with close friends, to whom I’m not afraid to reveal my vulnerabilities and loneliness.” Poet David Wojahn says, "One of my teachers, the poet Jon Anderson, was fond of saying that ‘the task of poetry is to say the toughest thing.’"
- Audio and Video from the Jon Anderson Memorial Reading and Panel Discussion
- A tribute written by Steve Orlen
- "Often Closing on Sleep" an essay by David Wojahn
- Secret of Poetry Broadside
- Up in Haiku Broadside
- Helpful Hints "Notes on Writing Poetry" by Jon Anderson
