To be bad at it. Good at the sentence, bad at the poem. To write proseand then just break that shit upinto lines. To write the poem-like-thing, the almost poem, the near beer poetry. To reach for the formbecause of its economy,its compression, its spongy versatility. To reach for the formbecause you have a thingContinue reading “#762: Ars Poetica”
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#380: Poem on April 6, 2021
I’ve been in the habit of writing these little preambles before the poem of the day. Today, the preamble will be necessarily short, as the following, I hope, speaks for itself. I didn’t like the prompt for today, so invented my own out of desperation and some inexplicable afternoon blues, and it was, simply, toContinue reading “#380: Poem on April 6, 2021”
#307: Priorities
(a casual facebook post this morning turned into a bonus poem for day 21 of Napowrimo) Morning: There’s a lawn to mow, some errands to run, and it’s record store day. But first, I must write a poem. Evening: I wrote the poem. With a rebel yell, I cried mow, mow, mowed, ran those errands,Continue reading “#307: Priorities”
#31: The American English Teacher Critiques His Own Poetry
Either he’s a Stat Blip Junky or he just can’t give up the poetry, one or the other. In the following blog entry, the American English Teacher decides to keep writing poetry even though National Poetry Writing Month is over. The American English Teacher Critiques His Own Poetry I’m no T.S. Eliot, he says, pouringContinue reading “#31: The American English Teacher Critiques His Own Poetry”
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