What is The Heron House?

Well, the primary plan here was to publish an ongoing series of essays which were to typically blend the essay form with the form we call poetry (prose poem) and the form we call creative non-fiction. Occasionally, by this original plan, a poem, a prose poem, or a micro-fiction piece would appear. The common theme of these essays and poems (etc.) was to be what I call “the cultural unconscious,” by which I mean basically the way culture—in the anthropological sense—influences us without our full conscious awareness. My perspective on the cultural unconscious is that it is mostly rooted in history, but by history I am referring mostly to cultural history. I believe it is valuable and important to explore how culture shapes us and how we shape culture.

Lately, I’m only setting poems down here. But that may change in the future.