Great Regulars: What is the difference between a poem

and a monologue? Clearly, some works are both, but what a gifted stand-up artist or actor does with face, body and voice, poetry does with the rhythms of words and the rhythms of thought, in language. Erin Belieu's "On Being Fired Again," a monologue in form and subject, also exemplifies the kinds of verbal energy peculiar to poetry:

On Being Fired Again

from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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