The Writers Block Booth Project

There’s always this search for the vernacular. There’s always this search for emotional honesty in a poem. The attempt to be present, being willing to expose the process in the writing rather than covering your tracks and making it a polished artifact…Poetry and literature have strayed very far from honesty. There’s [only] a few places where you hear some truth in our culture, and people are hungry for it, even non-literary types. I think that part of Beat is what people still look for now. Some directness, no bullshit, and not being afraid of having feelings, or having a body. We’ve all strayed from that again. People are afraid of the truth, and also afraid of speaking the truth.

~ Diane DiPrima