Recently, I read a conversation that the poet Stephane Mallarme had with the artist Degas. (T.V.F. Brogan) Degas complained to Mallarme that he was having trouble coming up with noble sentiments or profound thoughts to put in poems. Mallarme replied that poetry isn’t made out of ideas; it is made out of words. How many […]
I returned home last night from the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. It was a great week of workshops, craft talks and readings. I spent six days in the workshop of the poet Carl Phillips who had many things to say about kinds of repetition and pattern in poetry. The drafts of poems I brought to class […]
Dear Readers, I am headed off to the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference all next week. I will be slaving working at the conference and also taking a workshop from the poet Carl Phillips. I am thrilled to take the class and extremely grateful for the folks at Centrum who asked me to come and work. I […]