Carrie EtterFrustrated by the result of the American election, as I am? Angry? Feeling impotent? Wondering about what or how to write now? Read Stephen Burt's candid and thoughtful essay, "Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump," on the Boston Review website.
I was in a workshop today when I remarked that I was frustrated having a number of published poems I liked that hadn't fit into books, when one of my fellow workshoppers said she'd like a 'liquorice a
For a month now, I've been tackling a new short poem on a daily basis, and at the moment I feel like I want to do this for the rest of my life. I say at the moment because I have other writing tasks i
Hello, all. Given my last post was about writing daily, you won't be surprised to learn I encourage my students to try writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month (US) in April. A few times, I've d