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How resonant diction and correspondence propel a poem: Part 1 in what we look for at Tupelo Press
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 […]
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The Night Sky in Black & White: How the Poem Listens
October 27, 2011
Where do poems start? Where do they finish? What do they hear? The problem, as Olena Kalytiak Davis points out (or rather, as her invention, the speaker points out) in one of those astonishing poems in her Brittingham Prize-winning book, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing, is that “the brain sits right next to the […]
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Jeffrey Levine 
November 16, 2011
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