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I always know when a poem isn’t working. Sometimes I hear it right away and go back and change some words or line breaks or take some fluff out. Sometimes I don’t do anything for a long time and I just hope it will go away, like when my car starts making a funny noise—I…
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The first book of poems I ever bought and read was John Updike’s Collected Poems. I was probably seventeen, and I had been really taken by his poem in our English textbook, “Dog’s Death.” The first book of poems I bought that changed my life was The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara. It continues to…
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Please join in the discussion of “the most recent groundbreaking book of poetry” over at Woody’s Place.
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It’s been over a year now since I started writing the flurry of poems that collected into my first manuscript, the one from which my chapbook budded. In that time, the manuscript itself has gone through (now) 11 revisions. 11 rounds of major changes: reordering, restructuring, and revising individual pieces. And every time it gets…
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It’s Thesis Defense Season again…. It is so wonderful to be able to attend these on an ongoing basis. I didn’t really get a chance to go to as many as I wanted when I was a student (due to working full-time or working multiple jobs), but now I make time to go to as…
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This is the craziest roller coaster ever. And I can’t wait to ride it.
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