Ars Originem: On Poems of Literary Origin

Part I of III

I once had a professor (Hi, Craig Morgan Teicher!) who, paraphrasing wisdom his professor had bestowed upon him, offered a pleasingly visual analogy for the work of the writer…

Unlike practitioners of other forms of art, which rely to varying degrees on pre-existing supplies, writers must generate the raw material from which a poem might be shaped. Potte…