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Making Better Poems, Part II — with sample annotations

December 6, 2011

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       In my last blog entry, I spent quite a bit of time and space talking about space and time, as well as (importantly) the role of resonant diction and “correspondence” (the tethering of image to whatever is correspondingly human) in making a poem come alive. Somewhere in the midst of that entry (in the […]

How resonant diction and correspondence propel a poem: Part 1 in what we look for at Tupelo Press

November 16, 2011

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    In my last post I promised a discussion of the “craft annotation” and, by extension, an explanation of why the meticulous work of annotating poems is so very valuable to the further work of the writer. The value of a craft annotation derives from the way it closely examines the inner workings of a […]

Jeffrey Levine is an award-winning poet and the Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press. He is currently offering seminars and workshops in poetry and publishing, as well as in-depth manuscript reviews.

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