PoetryA collection of 763 posts

Poetry

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers tha...

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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways ...

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I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage youn...

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I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

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

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

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

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

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

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