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On Recurring Titles in Poetry

On Recurring Titles in Poetry

and an invitation to write your own ✨

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Dear Friends,

Happy Monday! Here’s a short craft lesson that I hope will serve your writing.

It occurred to me over the weekend that both of my collections feature sequences that recycle (and build upon) a recurring title. Why? Because writing poems with the same or similar titles is a self-generating practice: one has the relief of never quite starting f…

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