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What shall I call this one? I know — how about miscellany?
Robert Wrigley discusses his poem “Earthquake Light” with Diana Lockward. The Poet on the Poem: My poems, generally at least, work toward sonic unity. As much as anything else, this is the way I...
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Poetry read aloud
An Introduction to Poetry, 9th ed., edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia (Longman 1997) In . . . open form poetry, sound and rhythm are positive forces. When speaking a poem in open form, you often...
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Frost on style
I used to say “Style is content,” which is to say how you say a thing is the thing you say. I guess that’s what makes me a poet. I still think that is true, though lately I’ve backed off on it a...
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The sharks are circling
I discovered a new (to me) site that I need to explore: The Sharkpack Poetry Review In practice, the PACK seeks to create a space for pithy, incisive reviews of contemporary poems and poetry of the...
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The problem of words
From Ted Hughes’s Poetry in the Making (Faber and Faber, 1967) . . . how are we to say what we see in the crow’s flight? It is not enough to say the crow flies purposefully, or heavily, or rowingly, or...
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