Twice Curated Poems
A Brief Personal Welcome
A Brief Personal Welcome (A Primer for Reading, Listening, and Entering the Work) Welcome to Horizon Pilot.You’ve been recruited to seek the creative—to take flight, to scout ahead. This isn’t just a blog. It’s an invitation.What you’ll find here is not designed for skimming.These aren’t social snippets or clever fragments.They’re thought experiments in full poetic…
Borrowed Illumination
POEM: Borrowed Illumination Alberta Turner was a professor who had taken poets under her wing. One of them made sure I became another. She taught at Cleveland State University and took over its poetry center with this philosophy:“Whether they’re academic poets, street poets, language poets, or living-room poets, it really doesn’t matter. Whatever opens your…
List of Titles
Here is a list of Twice Curated titles currently slated for posting. These works have been selected by editors and have appeared in various magazines and journals. A very few have been selected from The Book of Joe and The Exploded View. Other selections have come from unpublished projects such as The Smolder Between Solstices, Cone of…
BIO
Mark Kessinger was born in Huntington WV, attended college at Cleveland State University, lived in Oklahoma City, and has resided in Houston TX since 1984. He is a two-year recipient of a creative writing full scholarship from CSU, a founding member and past president of the Houston Council of Writers, and former editor of Voices…