Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Does art have a usefulness much greater than has been realized? Is poetry, when authentic, justice to reality; and can we—and do we need to—learn from it? The latest issue of TRO is thrilling in its answers to these questions, including a groundbreaking description of what is necessary for racism to end.… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Do we need to see what poetry is in order to understand how we want to be in our lives? “Poetry’s Opposites–& Ours” says Yes! There is the latest installment of Eli Siegel’s powerful lecture A Statement about Poetry: Some Instances. And there’s a description of a modern woman’s confusion about life, love, family, work:… Read more

Ruth Oron, born in Israel, is an essayist, sculptor, and Aesthetic Realism associate. She writes: People everywhere are troubled by their inability to give deep attention to things outside themselves. In his great lecture Mind and Attention, Eli Siegel provides the explanation of what true attention is, and why people have difficulty giving it. For… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: The new issue of TRO—about the beautiful and utterly practical way Aesthetic Realism sees poetry—is enormously kind. What is poetry, the real thing? Does every good poem have within it, in its technique, a way of seeing reality—events, people, objects—that we need and want, even want desperately? Yes! … Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Is there a fight in everyone—the central fight in our minds—that affects all our decisions, and our happiness? This issue of TRO explains, and uses thrilling poetry to show, what that fight is—and you’ll learn about how the fight in us has to do with love, economics, America now! There’s nothing… Read more

Dale Laurin, architect and Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: When I first read “The Aesthetic Method in Self-Conflict,” I was amazed; I felt understood, less confused, more hopeful than ever before. In this chapter from his major work Self and World, Eli Siegel explains the central, underlying question every person is unknowingly trying to make sense… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This issue of TRO, “A World That Has Meaning!” is thrilling, important, and needed by people right now.  What are we—what is everyone—most hoping for as 2023 is soon to begin?  Is it to see that other things and the world itself have fresh and authentic value?  Yes!  But what… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: A question crucial in the life of every person is: how much meaning and value should the world have for me? Reading the new issue of TRO, you’ll be surprised and thrilled by the magnificent, logical way that question is dealt with by Aesthetic Realism. And so… Read more

Faith K. Stern, Aesthetic Realism consultant, created the popular website beautyofnyc.org with her husband John Stern. She says: When I first read Eli Siegel’s poem “Character Sketch,” I loved the way he gave form to self-deprecating feelings like those I’d had. And who hasn’t complained about and murkily criticized himself or herself? In the poem… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What are people really hoping for in love? And what causes the anger and disappointment that so often accompany—or take the place of—what people thought was love? Reading this new issue of TRO, you’ll be thrilled by the understanding of what love really is—and of what in a person… Read more