How to Write Better Poems | A Poet Explains
Published on Fri, Apr 23rd 2021
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Have you ever wondered what makes a poem "good," how to write a good poem, or even what makes something a poem in the first place?
Well, I'm an English professor and published poet here to help you out.
Sources:
---Why Poetry - Matthew Zapruder
---The Poetry Home Repair Manual - Ted Kooser
---Poems (in order of appearance):
--------"The Alchemist" by Zoe Bee
--------"Unnamed Bad Poem" by Zoe Bee
--------"I do not need the kind of love..." by Rupi Kaur
--------"After Years" by Ted Kooser
--------"Newcastle Bar & Grill" by Thea S. Kuticka
--------"For Annie" by Edgar Allen Poe
--------"Yellow Tractate" by Brenda Hillman
--------"Iron" by Gabbie Hanna
--------"The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
--------"Ode to the Bumblebee" by Zoe Bee
--------"A patch of violets, visited twice" by Zoe Bee
With help from:
---A. McNamee (@audmcname), http://audmcname.com
---Neil Farrell (pronounced like "barrel," so I'm told), https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC358urzyldvD78E9o2sR-Og
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Music:
---"Alchemy of Sorts" by Neil Farrell
---"Gnossiennes no. 1" by Erik Satie
---Creative commons sound effects from Philip Arthur
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