You feel guilty about the time you spent folding laundry even though you’re going to have to have something to wear tomorrow. You start thinking that a poem about lo mein isn’t such a bad idea. It’s Sunday night and you’re wearing the same shirt you woke up in Saturday morning. You’re logged in to […]
The following is stuff that sort of bubbled up to the top when thinking about the essay “The Intentional Fallacy,” and while it speaks to the difficult of any evaluation of poetry, it’s not something I’m willing to stand by, just something I present for argument. The idea of intentional fallacy seems to me inescapable […]
I know that grad school asks me to write papers about craft so that I can learn from what I am reading, but sometimes, when you really, really love a poem, you don’t want to look under the hood. You know it works. You wish you didn’t have to think about why. As if knowing […]
Very Like a Whale makes the case for a gestation period for your poems.
