Robert MorganA collection of 28 posts

Poetry

Poetry almost by definition calls attention to its language and form.

Poetry

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes fr...

Poetry

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it has...

Poetry

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recogniz...

Poetry

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it g...

Poetry

A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a metapho...

Poetry

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go...

Poetry

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subjec...

Poetry

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. O...

Poetry

Some people swear by writing courses but whether it really helps American poetr...