Ways Of Looking At A Poetry Reading
Part of drafting a poem is reading it aloud. Until its been read, it remains unfinished. *
Midway through reading a poem I liked, I realized it was too long. I felt different about it as it was coming out of my mouth. Wrong room perhaps? Different kind of listeners? This morning I took that poem, promptly deleted nine lines out of it, and re-printed it. *
Its possible the poems you have the least faith in are your better poems. The shortest poem I read may have been t