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Two wonderful new poems out by Quinn Franzen Guava Jelly The Name of Action Previous

From his poem Leave New York Thank you to Jenny Offill for suggesting this poem. Joshua has an incredible new book out. One of my favorite lines is "New personal knowledge making its way through the failing body” Previous

From The Witness of Poetry Previous

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Paul Valéry also describe his perception of first lines so vividly, and to my mind so accurately, that I have never forgotten it: the opening line of a poem, he said, is like finding a fruit on the ground, a piece of fallen fruit you have never seen before, and the poet's task is to create the tree from which such a fruit would fall. From Mary Ruefle - Madness, Rack and Honey Previous

And the less is always the same, and young poets recognize this to be one of the most important lessons they can learn: if you have an idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error. From Mary Ruefle - Madness, Rack and Honey Previous

Roland Barthes suggests there are three ways to finish any piece of writing: the ending will have the last word or the ending will be silent or the end will execute a pirouette, do something unexpectedly incongruent. From Mary Ruefle Madness, Rack and Honey Previous

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