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punctuation in poetry

should: a poet punctuate, a poem, for sense or can he or she let the line breaks and stanza breaks do it for him or her will the resultant emphases create more shades of meaning than punctuation ever could or … Continue reading

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digging

Like Doctor Frankenstein, the poet desperate to breathe poetry into the blank corpse of random words lying dead on the slab before him digs down through the trivia and detritus

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Keeping it fresh

My resolve to publish a new poem every day is posing me with some intriguing challenges that I had not contemplated when I engaged in this process twenty-four days ago. I have never attempted a poetry marathon before — my … Continue reading

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