Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Great Regulars: To write poetry is to exist in

the present and the past and the future all at once. That's why, when you start to write poems, you quickly discover that the art is big and the poet is not.

An example of this last idea can be found in Elizabeth Alexander's delightful poem on the art of poetry in which she asserts that poetry is simultaneously idiosyncratic and timeless.

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: A peek behind the scaffolds

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