Locate someone other than yourself. Make sure they have lips.
Locate someone other than yourself. Make sure they have lips.
Venturesome poet Andrei Voznesensky dies at 77
His books of poems included “The Triangular Pear,” “Antiworlds,” “Stained-glass Master,” “Violoncello Oakleaf,” “Videoms and Fortune Telling by the Book.”
It would be nice to know what the hell one is doing once in a while,” she [Canadian poet Karen Solie] says, “but on the other hand isn’t that why people keep doing any kind of art? Because you never quite get there.
If a girl’s stocking comes down,
her lover is thinking of her.
He wants to be the stocking,
then fall so she can smooth him back up
along her thigh.
Are you saying that poetry is a means of forgetting rather than confronting?
Friday tip: put it in a drawer and walk away.
Zadie Smith says to start a piece of writing and then:
put it in a drawer. For as long as you can manage….Step away from the vehicle. The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.I started this poem at the kitchen table two days ago. It was driving me crazy. Finally, I walked away from it and forgot about it. Came back to the kitchen table the next day, worked on it a bit, then walked away. Finally, this morning, I saw the way to end it. (You can’t tell from the picture — I’ll post the final one later.)
Don’t feel like you need to finish a poem in one sitting. Put it in a drawer and walk away from it for a day or two or a week. Come back and see.
Read more tips in the archives and in the book.
- Austin
Cartoon Physics, Part 1 from Poetry Everywhere, PBS.org. (via UWManimation on Youtube)
Our cousin is creepy and stands too close. He’s wearing a toupee.
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