Marilyn McCabe – Trish Hopkinson

Beneath the Skin: Levels of Editing Poems – guest post by Marilyn McCabe

By Guest Author on February 7, 2021 • ( 5 Comments )

As I brood over my newest batch of poems, and cast a crabby eye on the previous batch, as yet unpublished, it seems to me that editing can be focused on three levels. There’s the level of the text on the page: Are the verbs active and surprising […]

4 rules for poetry readings – guest blog post rewind by Marilyn McCabe

By Trish Hopkinson on December 2, 2018 • ( 5 Comments )

I went to a good poetry reading the other evening. But, boy, I wish I the poet hadn't kept doing things that undermined his own presentation of his own work. The poet violated almost every rule in my unwritten how-to-do-a-poetry-reading rule book. Which spurred me to write down […]