PoetryMatters
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What Poem, What Line?
Read post: What Poem, What Line?What poem, what line first turned you on to the power of poetry? Open this board on Padlet
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Creative Writing
Read post: Creative Writing“How do you know when all is truly said and done?” asked the teacher, who’s really old. The students blindly stared at him, then…
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Line and Breath
Read post: Line and Breathfor Robert Creeley Robert taught where I do Latin & English as I do left returning for a reading died before such a Creeley…
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On Revision
Read post: On RevisionIf I live twenty years to be a hundred I’ll still be oiling the bones of this poem so it may stand when there’ll…
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The Poet Speaks of Darkness
Read post: The Poet Speaks of DarknessAll poems are dark. Sometimes it’s a puddle or a clown waltzing off a cliff, the tempo keeping you aloft until you fall, glad…
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On the Odyssey, Parts I–XI, Ongoing
Read post: On the Odyssey, Parts I–XI, OngoingI: Polytropos II: “All Strangers and Beggars Come from Zeus” – Eumaeus III: Odysseus: the Name and the Scar IV: The Bow and the…
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Your Life a Poem
Read post: Your Life a PoemIf your life is a poem, as Naomi says, you must wakei n your dreaming: t he wind is calling, thunder knocks at your…
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To Write a Poem
Read post: To Write a Poema wind in his throat mounting the stairs fingers playing with his brain making a fist a knock on the door I wrote a…
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De Naso
Read post: De Naso(Concerning the Nose) Come, dear friend, and dine with me and bring with you what I have not: wine to wet our lips and…