An Act of Hope
What makes a poem?
And to whom do I turn
to find out?
Clark Coolidge's
answer differs
from that of Annie Finch!
Elena looks to Mary Oliver
and Jane Kenyon
and Padraig O Tuama.
I look to Dylan Thomas
and Theodore Roethke
and Auden and Kooser and Elena.
Robert Pinsky recommends
we make our own anthologies,
our own constellations of stars.
We don't quite emulate,
except perhaps if we're young
or if we're stuck.
But we try to get something
of the older poem's energies
into our own. An act of hope.
Poetry by Uncle Meridian
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Written on 2021-10-29 at 21:14
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