P.S. Keith Haring's Poetry

"I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up."

Two weeks ago, I posted about Sylvia Plath’s visual notes. “Creative people,” I wrote, “are [often] creative across multiple mediums.” In this postscript, I consider Keith Haring’s poetry. While he is known today as a visual artist, his journals reveal a man who thought deeply about the written word. He transcribed quotations from favorite poets like Keats and Rimbaud. He read poetic theory. He reflected on his friend Brion Gysin’s cut-up technique. And, of course, Haring wrote his own experimental poetry.

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