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A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
12 Things Poets Get Backwards - Part VI
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As we cross the halfway mark some might speculate about what is the most obvious, common and egregious thing that poets get exactly wron...
Sunday, January 5, 2014
12 Things Poets Get Backwards - Part VII
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Earl the Squirrel's Rule #71 In a thread on Eratosphere regarding the Boston Review's 20 Top Poems of 2013 it took all o...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
12 Things Poets Get Backwards - Part VIII
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"'What does this poem mean?' (In my perfect world posing this question would, itself, be a fireable offense.)" ...
Monday, December 30, 2013
12 Things Poets Get Backwards - Part IX
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"You're crying with a loaf of bread under your arm." - old Yiddish saying. Earl the Squirrel's Rule #81 ...
Saturday, December 28, 2013
12 Things Poets Get Backwards - Part X
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Earl the Squirrel's Rule #18 I don't know where people get the notion that poetry is all "Kumbaya", with everyon...
Friday, December 27, 2013
12 Things Poets Get Backwards - Part XI
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Earl the Squirrel's Rule #20 What is poetry? More to the point, why do so many try to write it? Because it seems to for...
12 Things Poets Get Backwards - Part XII
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Earl the Squirrel's Rule #17 What things do the majority of new poets get exactly wrong? I can think of at least twelve. Let ...
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