. In the new, spring issue of West, my Poetic License column offers a discussion of voice in poetry, in introduction to the poetry of John Spaulding, whose The White Train was chosen by Henry Taylor for the National Poetry Series in 2004. The first thing I look for in a poem is its voice. It is […]
Eating Poetry* (1)
The Poem You Asked For My poem would eat nothing. I tried giving it water but it said no, worrying me. Day after day, I held it up to the llight, turning it over, but it only pressed its lips more tightly together. It grew sullen, like a toad through with being teased. I offered […]