# 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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## [Reprise: Like coffins falling off a truck](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/reprise-like-coffins-falling-off)

_2024-04-13 · Kenneth Salzmann_

David Groff's "Disbelieving These Deaths, I Go to Sit by Lake Hebron"

## [Reprise: "You don’t really know what you have.”](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/reprise-you-dont-really-know-what)

_2024-04-06 · Kenneth Salzmann_

Two VERY DIFFERENT poems by Dane Cervine

## [On April 1, How to Grow a Poem will mark its first anniversary!](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/on-april-1-how-to-grow-a-poem-will)

_2024-03-31 · Kenneth Salzmann_

Of course, April 1 is not only “How to Grow a Poem’s” first birthday, it’s also the first day of National Poetry Month in the U.S.

## ["How to Grow a Poem" will be one year old on April 1!](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/how-to-grow-a-poem-will-be-one-year)

_2024-03-30 · Kenneth Salzmann_

And here's an anniversary gift for you!

## [An important note](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/an-important-note)

_2024-03-25 · Kenneth Salzmann_

to subscribers and readers

## [Some thoughts on the art of poetry](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-the-art-of-poetry)

_2024-03-23 · Kenneth Salzmann_

on the cusp of National Poetry Month

## [Wrap me in your soft gray coat again](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/wrap-me-in-your-soft-gray-coat-again)

_2024-03-16 · Kenneth Salzmann_

"Love Poem for November" by Antonia Clark

## [Reprise: "Let’s recognize our need for awe."](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/reprise-lets-recognize-our-need-for)

_2024-03-13 · Kenneth Salzmann_

"These Rivers Remember" by Native American poet Roberta Hill

## [Reprise: "The Man Who Writes Like Pablo Neruda"](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/reprise-the-man-who-writes-like-pablo)

_2024-03-06 · Kenneth Salzmann_

remembering James Tipton

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## [The land goes on like mercy, out and around forever](https://kennethsalzmann.substack.com/p/the-land-goes-on-like-mercy-out-and)

_2024-03-02 · Kenneth Salzmann_

"For the Sake of One We Love, and Are Losing" by Phyllis Cole-Dai