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Though I, on the whole, have a penchant for the traditional forms and meters of English poetry, I am not content to study it alone. Like any fruit-bearing crop, the fields of English poetry require rich fertilization in the form of inspiration. In the past 100 years, this was accomplished primarily by the abandonment of……
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I am reading several books at once, I’ll admit: The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck, The Norton Shakespeare (Richard the III currently), The Art of Haiku by Stephen Addiss (as I’ve blogged about before), as well as The World of the Troubadours by Linda M. Paterson (and a mafia romance book, but I won’t get……
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I was mentored by a professor with some very strong opinions about what qualifies as poetry, a classics curmudgeon, his daily tea steeped in Latin. He didn’t consider slam poetry as true poetry. He didn’t consider the lyrics of songs as poetry. I even had difficulty in talking to him about the various poetic traditions……
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Twelve years ago, after taking a special 1-on-1 poetry mentor class with C. Wade Bentley where I practiced writing free verse poetry, I decided to make a self-study of haiku. As part of that, I finally decided to buy a book I had been eyeing for a year at the local Barnes & Noble “The……
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I’m changing my writing process. I’ve used the same writing process for seven years now, and it has served me well. I have strong reasons for changing it though, to adopting a better process for me. Now, instead of waiting a calendar year to revise and submit a drafted poem to my peers, and then……
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