Tag: ars poetica

• Turnings

  After Elizabeth Alexander.

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  December 12, 2025

  ars poetica, death, fear, In Memoriam, life, Poetry, student, teaching, Tennyson

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• Why I Write Poems

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  July 31, 2025

  ars poetica, enlightenment, epiphany, Poetry

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• Ambition

  An ars poetica.

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  April 30, 2025

  ars poetica, life, money, Poetry, sense, writing

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• Spring (V)

  An ars poetica. For my late Aunt Hollie.

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  April 3, 2025

  ars poetica, Belgium, elegy, Ghent, grief, language, loss, poetics, Poetry, spring

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• Divination

  A meditation on poetics. In Ghent.

  

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  March 11, 2025

  America, ars poetica, Belgium, blank verse, divination, future, Ghent, lyric, past, poetics, Poetry, possibility, present

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• Schuylkill

  An American lyric. In Philadelphia.

  

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  March 9, 2025

  ars poetica, change, lyric, Philadelphia, Poetry, Schuylkill, self

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• Conspiracy

  A theory (so to speak) of poetry.

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  September 8, 2024

  ars poetica, breathing, conspiracy, dVerse, inspiration, plot, Poetry, voice

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• Terroir (VII)

  Or: “Reasons for Being Here.” An ars poetica.

  

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  July 28, 2024

  America, ars poetica, art, belonging, home, longing, Poetry, reasons

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