Poetry Tips
The material in this section is for POETS. It is intended to help emerging poets find the courage, the power, and the skill to make effective poetry. FAIR WARNING: This is not the stuff you get in the standard poetry class. In my view, the orthodox teaching of poetry is infected with a sufficient number of fundamental errors so as to have killed the poetic productivity of generations of poets writing in English.
Find the Courage to Create:
- It’s not crazy to strive to be the equal of the Great Poets of the past.
- Be prepared to work hard to make good poems.
- Write for the love your reader.
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Build the Basic Skills
- Writing is rewriting
- The trick to producing clean rhyme
- Making rhythm
- The secret of sound”
- Voice and Voices
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Avoid the Deadly Poison
- A poem is a picture in words.
- Good poetry must be difficult to understand.
- Comedy can never be great art.
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