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"The problem with this poem, as with so many poems, is not that it needs to be more “creative” or “imagistic,” but that the poem’s consciousness in relation to the poem’s content is not genuine. It’s more or less all stance, and lying. In other words, I was not ready to write this poem."

  • Matthew Zapruder - from https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/17/how-to-write-a-poem-about-noguchi/
Poetry prompt from @Joseph_Fasano_
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"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."
—Sigmund Freud

Michael Bazzett, from "Inside the Trojan Horse", The Echo-Chamber: Poems
Michael Bazzett, from "Inside the Troja…

you do not have to be a fire
for
every mountain blocking you.
you could be a water
and
soft river your way to freedom
too.

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Nayyirah Waheed

“The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.”

—Charles Simic

Anna Kamienska, from “Industrious Amazement: A Notebook,” translated by Clare Cavanagh in Poetry (March 1st, 2011)
Anna Kamienska, from “Industrious Amaze…

And I tell people who struggle with poetry that’s how you should experience poetry too, the way you experience weather. You shouldn’t go into it saying, ‘What is the code? What is the meaning? How do I solve this riddle?’ It’s not a riddle, it’s an atmosphere. And I think that the more I talk to you, the more I feel that you’re a weather-maker as well as a hope-keeper. I  think that’s ultimately what we do – we create atmospheres people can embody.

poems that make my heart sing
by Annika Hansteen-Izora
139 blocks • 25 days ago
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