Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have …

- Aaron Belz

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I wri…

- Aaron Belz

Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a s…

- Aaron Belz

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

- Aaron Belz

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for…

- Aaron Belz

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

- Aaron Belz

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

- Aaron Belz

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

- Aaron Belz

The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always …

- Aaron Belz