Time also came up a lot in the special section of the Jan/Feb 2020 Poets&Writers Magazine. Keith S. Wilson who wrote Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (assoc link) his writer’s block remedy is: “Time. They say time heals all wounds, which is a lie, but it is true that no wound healed without time. I hopeContinue reading “A Poem as Time”
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Poetry as Ordinary Observations of Opposites
After yesterday’s discussion of novelty, the word “ordinary” stood out to me in the Sept/Oct 2019 Poets&Writers Magazine. In The Literary Life section article “Historical Fiction: The Pleasures and Perils of Writing About Other Eras” by Christina Baker Kline and Lisa Gornick. Kline mentions a New Yorker piece in which Jill Lepore writes, “Fiction canContinue reading “Poetry as Ordinary Observations of Opposites”
Poems as Novelty Detectors
In the Editor’s Note of the July/August 2019 Poets&Writers Magazine, Kevin Latimer wrote, “. . . it made me appreciate how easily the human ear can block out background noise. (It’s a built in function of the brain, specifically the “novelty detector” neurons, which store information about patterns of sound and stop firing if aContinue reading “Poems as Novelty Detectors”
Experience Writing 