consider what must be happening when we set out to produce a poem

There are no more two distinct brain sides than there are two distinct genders. Why would that surprise anyone who’s ever created anything? from “A Moment’s Thought” by Ellen Bryant Voigt in her excellent collection The Flexible Lyric The recent bicameral (and thoroughly Nietzschean) model—right brain for intuition, emotion, art, and music; left brain for [...]

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All poetry is fragment

All poetry is fragment: it is shaped by its breakages, at every turn. It is the very art of turnings, toward the white frame of the page, toward the unsung, toward the vacancy made visible, that wordlessness in which our words are couched. Its lines insistently defy their own medium by averting themselves from the [...]

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