Driving Jersey: Dave Stanley: Part of Something

This is poet Dave Stanley. Following a three month journey around the United States, we hooked back up with Dave to hear about his travels and to film him reading one of his new poems. This is it, PART OF SOMETHING. Dave said the poem is born out of his desire to connect more deeply to other people and things. Citing his adoption, and his journey in and out of a life of transient, often drug-fueled friendships, as impetuous to tracing his roots, Stanley said PART OF SOMETHING is a realization poem that speaks to where he finds himself today, creating a web of artists and friends, "a pack," some as far away as across the country, but as close as the words and ideas and stages that they share, when they share. "There's poetry in every interaction," he said, "you just have to keep your eyes, ears and hearts open."

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