A good poem, I think, serves as a bridge between one's most private inner life and something outside oneself: another inner life, the natural world, the mysteries of society, culture, politics. The poem forges connections, allows what we do...
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My mentor Carolyn Doty, a novelist, always stressed that a writer’s first duty is to communicate. I believe that. We can free write or develop elaborate mental air castles—but language, by its nature, puts us into communication with other f...
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That is one of the reasons I have never posted any of my poems over here, because I thought people might not think I was "deep" enough. Most of my poems are more like stories or have to do with the simple things of life and humor....
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Purple Irises outside my window have begun to wilt. Obliterated, almost, by the harsh winter that has fallen. Each of them bending and swaying. Tilting at the weight of the fresh snow. Resilient and so lovely. Yet the winter will win once a...
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Video: Types Of Poetry expert Michael Rosen (Poet and Children's Laureate) gives expert advice on: Do different forms of poetry fulfill different purposes?
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That is a bit like asking what is the purpose of a painting; it can be purely decorative, or it may be a remembrance, or a way to conjure up the past or the future or some distant place. It may be a political comment or purely subjective pi...
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I looked it up and it is called "Life is Just a Minute". The author is anonymous, Life is Just a Minute I have only just a minute, Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it...
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