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2022 Through 2024

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2022 Posts

About: Welcome to Poetry Notes. How this blog began.

Review: M. Travis Lane, The Witch of the Inner Wood: Collected Long Poems (Goose Lane Editions, 2016)  

Cover Blurb: Sonia Saikaley, A Samurai’s Pink House (Inanna, 2017)

Cover Blurb: Monika Lee, If Water Breathes (Resource Publications, 2019)

Note: Detail, three thoughts on its use in poetry

Note: Free-write, a loosening-up creative exercise

Note: Dirty Work, writing a poem as akin to gardening

Note: “Progress” in poetry

Note: Imagery That Dismays, three kinds

Note: Imagery – Word Order

Review Excerpt: Line, Kevin Shaw, Smaller Hours (Goose Lane Editions 2017)

Review Excerpt: Line and Detail, Heidi Greco, Practical Anxiety (Inanna Publications, 2018)

Note: The Poem As…

Note: Metre (1), resistance to

Commentary: Blaine Marchand, Becoming History: A Life Told Through Poetry (Aeolus House, 2021)

Commentary: Marvyne Jenoff, Climbing the Rain (Silver Bow Publishing, 2022)

Commentary: Carmen Starnino, “Poetry & digital personhood: On artificial intelligence and creativity” (The New Criterion, Vol. 40, No. 9 / May 2022)

Response: More on AI and Poetry, a statement by technologist and poet David Brayley

Note: Metre (2), an aid to scansion

Note: Surprise, the advantage of

Note: Metre (3) David Brayley on metre as the structure underpinning all poems

Note: Metre (4), making the pattern audible

Note: Revision (1), keeping the freshness

Note: Revision (2), projecting outside the poet’s skull

Note: Tight Poem, solid not thin

Commentary: The Big If, what a poem can do

Note: Symbol, contrasted with extended metaphor

Commentary: Frog’s Progress: A Fable

Note: Cooking with Poetry

Commentary: Know Your Critics

Note: The Integrity of the Line

Note: Writing on the Edge

Commentary: Poet’s Progress: Or Not? 

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2023 Posts

Note: Hello Again

Commentary: Endorphins and Poetry

Commentary: A Little More Gauze (silly stuff)

Note: Discovering Form (1), why triads

Note: Discovering Form (2), four-line stanzas and pairs

Note: Discovering Form (3), beyond amorphous

Note: A Thrill, Russell Thornton’s hummingbird

Commentary: Never Alone, body of work as one long poem

Note: Art

Note: Commerce

Guest Note: Marvyne Jenoff ~ On Poetry

Note: Memorization

Note: Liftoff

Note: Ekphrasis ~ The Challenge

Creative Nonfiction: On Humility

Note: A Poet on Poets ~ Don Gutteridge

Note: Closure

Commentary: Whence a Poem (1)

Commentary: Whence a Poem (2)

Note: Image Spokes ~ K.V. Skene

Note: In Gratitude ~ Merla McMurray

Note: Whose Voice?

Note: Staying Open

Note: Line Breaks—Again

Note: Reality

Note: Interplay ~ Kate Marshall Flaherty

Note: Book Sales

Note: Relativity

Note: More on AI and Poetry

Note: Duality

Note: The Next Step?

Note: Whetting the Appetite

Note: Wordsworth vs Eliot

Note: Memorable

Note: The Big Why

Note: Perfection

Review: David Zieroth, Watching for Life (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022)

Commentary: Looking Back ~ Confessions of a Little-Magazine Editor

Note: Stanza Breaks

Note: A Deeper Look ~ Susan Zimmerman’s “Get Close”

Note: Poetry and the Brain

Note: Wordless

Note: Sequence (1) ~ Camera

Note: Sequence (2) ~ Narrative

Note: Sequence (3) ~ Sideways

Note: Sequence (4) ~ Curiosity

Note: Seen or Silent (1) ~ Page as Gold Standard

Note: Greetings ~ Holiday Season

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2024 Posts

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Note: 2024 ~ NeuroArts Introduction

Note: Seen or Silent (2)

Note: NeuroArts

Note: Poetry at Work ~ Brick Books Employee Workshops

Note: Reaching Beyond ~ Juniper Vol 7, Issue 3

Note: Exercise and the Muse ~ 6 Ways Exercise Benefits Creativity

Note: Of Place and Time (1)

Note: Of Place and Time (2)

Note: Full Circle ~ The Passing of Rosemary Aubert

Note: The Substance of Space ~ Tara Borin

Note: Where Is the Poetry? ~ Five sources

Note: Quickie ~ Stunning imagery

Note: The Gift of Workshops

Note: Bouncing Off ~ Another’s poem

Note: Time and the Writer

Note: Another Dip ~ Charles Bernstein Poetics

Note: Inspired ~ Poems as gifts

Note: Bird Metre

Note: Gems

Note: Seniority (1) ~ Old age - Allan Briesmaster

Note: Seniority (2) ~ Old Age - Christopher Levenson

Note: Quick Quote: Gustave Flaubert

Note: Intoxicated by End Rhyme

Note: Wordsworth Again ~ Kate Braid

Note: More on Form (1) ~ Set forms versus free verse

Note: More on Form (2) ~ Metre as inspiration

Note: Seasoned Advice ~ Bruce Meyer

Note:  Airiness ~ Pamela Porter’s “Coyotes”

Note: Missingness (1)

Note: Faith

Note: Missingness (2)

Note: Finding the Poem (1)       

Note: Finding the Poem (2)

Note: Finding the Poem (3)

Note: Milestone ~ On turning 80

Note: The Existential Moment

Article: Writers’ Horror Stories

Note: Switching ~ From left to right brain

Note: Time Out

Note: Voice ~ Gabriele Lusser Rico definition

Note: Quick Quote:  Pádraig Ó Tuama

Note: ‘Tis the Season… ~ Poetry Notes taking a break beyond the New Year