Nancy Huntting, speaker on women’s issues, and originally from Cincinnati, OH, writes: I first read this poem by Eli Siegel when I was in my 20s. Through lines so musical they stayed in my mind, I learned about the fight in me between hoping for love and wanting to feel free. This poem has the… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: This new issue of TRO, “The Sincerity We Need,” is urgent, moving, magnificently clarifying. It is about something people have longed to understand: what is sincerity?—and what interferes with one’s own?  It is about a matter tremendously important both for individuals and for our nation: what does true poetry,… Read more

Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: This new issue of The Right Of does something great—and urgently needed. It shows how the study of what poetry really is can teach us to see the world and ourselves truly! How can poetry, the real thing, have us see the ordinary moments of our lives with… Read more

Barbara Kestenbaum, who worked in Special Education for over 30 years, writes: I remember, when my son was born, looking at his tiny fingers with awe and asking, “Who is this little boy?” And as many parents also do, I worried, “Will I be a good mother?” When I read “The Child,” a chapter from… Read more

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