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  • Poetry » General, General Re: wind blowing through the windows

    Interesting. I think you’re all asking a central question here. What remains of the self after we’ve performed, remembered, been forgotten? There's a delicate eeriness to the opening. I wonder ...

    May 16, 2025
  • Poetry » General, General Re: and the bluejays played in the grass

    This is intimate, but that restraint also carries a risk. I think you could clarify your intentions and refine your structure. You begin with disownment, in daylight. That contrast (“my ...

    May 16, 2025
  • Poetry » Realistic, Narrative Re: gifted child, great student, good son

    This is ambitious. I want to open with a few questions and thoughts, not as prescriptions, but as points of conversation. There’s a core in this poem that really wants ...

    May 13, 2025


Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins