a surprisingly unfettering process: the limitations of the medium and the attempt at being something of a medium for the experimental voice.
Dig into your poet's toolbox: repetition, metaphor, personification, alliteration, and meter are your friends.
This past week I've been doing a lot of work on my poetry thesis: organizing it into three possible orders and working out themes and sections and all that. Each time I'd figure out one potential way into the manuscript,... Continue Reading →
Today an image heavy post, with a sparse poem to accompany. In this case, I worked on the poem first, and then finished the image. Sometimes, certain words just pop out. In my case, it was "take care." Also, never... Continue Reading →
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