Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Abandoned or Revised

I understood long ago that selecting one title and writing a series of poems (usually 60-70, sometimes more) worked well for me. I also agree with Paul Valery & his idea that; “a poem is never finished, only abandoned,” This liberating notion inspired me to continue to edit and revise and add to poems I had written decades before.

Note to P.S. Colley on Poetry and the Creative Process

If you were directing a movie for example, you would have notes first, kind of like a road map of what you wanted to explore in the poem, th...