I’m teaching a persona poem community workshop starting next week, so this seemed like a good post to share again. Enjoy! As writers we are so often told to "write what you know." And this is good advice. But this "rule" should not be taken literally, especially when […]
Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry is a beautifully designed print poetry journal seeking poems “written by authors whose work is informed by the Catholic faith. We publish poems on the basis of their artistic merit, rather than on the basis of the author's professed creed or because the […]
Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry is a beautifully designed print poetry journal seeking poems “written by authors whose work is informed by the Catholic faith. We publish poems on the basis of their artistic merit, rather than on the basis of the author's professed creed or because the […]
As writers we are so often told to "write what you know." And this is good advice. But this "rule" should not be taken literally, especially when creating persona poems. The poet must create a place where the reader must, as Samuel T. Coleridge famously said, "willingly suspends […]
