Recent Blog Posts
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On Finding the Poet’s Path
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Hello, poetry people. Welcome to my first Poetry Path blog. I plan to post once a week, focusing mostly on writing verse. Today I’m adding a picture taken long ago, partly to prove that I haven’t always been older than dirt but also because I want you to consider the…
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The Narrative Line
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Quite a few years back, I attended a small conference where the primary speaker was a gentleman who published a poetry magazine as well as collections of poems. He talked a bit about form and content and how each needed to complement the other in order to make a truly…
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Practicing Poetry Through Imitation
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Poetry Blog 4 When we’re a short distance down the poet’s path, most of us try to write in the manner of poets we admire. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a natural part of our progression along the path. At one point I tried to write like James Dickey.…
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How I Wrote My Latest Poem
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Poetry Blog 3 With 50 years of writing behind me, I’m still learning how to create poems. Recently I wrote a poem that’s a little different from many that I write, and once I had a draft completed and began chipping away at it, trying to improve it line by…
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Logometrics
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Last time I promised to tell why I call this blog The Poet’s Path rather than The Poets’ Path. After all, it’s our path and we’re poets, so shouldn’t it be the path of all of us instead of the path of one poet? That makes perfectly good sense, and…