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The Writer’s Chronicle, and
The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
INTRODUCTION
Being a poet has taught me the value of practice and patience. I have learned that my next poem will reveal itself to me if I simply follow language by engaging with it through my (mostly) daily reading and writing practice and if I wait for that small, persistent thing a scrap of language, an image, a question that won’t leave me alone that opens a door in my mind. I’ve also learned that for me, at least poetry is slow. I often work on poems for several years before they’re finished. This morning, I think I finally found the right form for a poem I’ve been working on for four years. Last month, I finished a poem I started working on in 2010. My poems spend a long time resting, waiting for me to come back around and try again to get it right. I’m not a particularly patient person in other
Melissa Crowe is the author of
Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in the
Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Four Way Review, POETRY, and
Thrush, among other journals. She coordinates the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches courses in poetry and publishing.
INTRODUCTION
Certainly there are things I wish my younger self didn’t have to wait so long to discover about writing that emotional power lies, so often, in the most unassuming, daily, and personal of details; that compression is a superpower; that formal constraint can give rise to freedom, sometimes (almost paradoxically) by limiting the field of choices, sometimes by forcing a revelation the freest verse would let us avoid. Honestly, though, I think my young self might have some things to tell
Ae Hee Lee is the author of two poetry chapbooks:
Bedtime || Riverbed (Compound Press, 2017) and
Dear bear, (Platypus Press, 2021). She holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has been published or is forthcoming at the New England Review, Narrative, Denver Quarterly, Southeast Review, and POETRY among others. She has also received scholarships and awards from the Academy of American Poets, AWP, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the Glen Workshop.
INTRODUCTION
It took me a while to realize reading and writing were just another way of listening and engaging in conversation with people (myself included!), ideas, and sounds. However, one of the things I love about paper is its boundless patience. It respects that every reader and writer has their own pace (some run, others wade). Therefore, if I were to offer some advice to my younger self, I would tell her i
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