The poets I will study and let inspire me will not necessarily be a strict lineage but a combination of many from different cultures.

If my first vow is with the great life of free and selfless creative evolution, then my attitude toward poetry is to look for the entire world for inspiration, not just local or national.

What I'm looking for is not necessarily a lineage but a dynamic exchange of ideas. The local and the international come together because they are all part of the One. But the One is what's important.

All cultures will inspire my writing but its practice and form at this moment and place relies to and will be local.

There is no lineage in jiyū shūkyō practice, only a rhizomatic rising of inspirations. My job is to search for these inspirations, these poets—spiritual or jiyū shūkyō poets or poets who could inspire a jiyū shūkyō poetics.

Here are the poets I resonate with and will study:

East

• Basho
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche(?)

West

• Walt Whitman
• Ezra Pound
• William Carlos Williams
• Charles Olson
• Jack Kerouac
• Allen Ginsberg
• Anne Waldman
• Billy Collins
• David Whyte
• Padraig O Tuama

Philippines

• Alejandro G. Abadilla
• Marne Kilates
• Rio Alma (?)
• Adam David (poetics)
• Conchitina Cruz (poetics)
• Rofel Brion
• Rem Tanauan
• Vincenz Serrano
• Santiago Villafania