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What You Know Now: Craft Lessons for Poets Over 50

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Maybe you picked up a pen again after years away. Maybe you never stopped writing but never shared a word. Maybe you started late and wonder if it is too late. It is not. Some of the most alive, most fearless, most honest poetry being written today is […]

Nails: Craft Tools for Nailing Down the End of a Poem – guest post by Deborah Bacharach & Dia Calhoun

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The End. Wouldn’t it be a relief if you could just end a poem like that? Every reader would know the poem had resoundingly concluded. However, most of us would like to be more subtle with our poetic craft, to signal the end with the structure of the poem, […]