Reprise: Like coffins falling off a truck
David Groff's "Disbelieving These Deaths, I Go to Sit by Lake Hebron"
How to Grow a Poem
A poet talks to his fellow poets--and occasionally to himself--about where poems come from. This project is dedicated to my 12th-grade English teacher and lifelong friend, Phyllis Levitt, may she rest in poetry.
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On April 1, How to Grow a Poem will mark its first anniversary!
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