I started writing poetry when I was eight years old and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that doing so saved my life then and at many other times. Why did I start writing poetry? Frankly, I ...
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“Open Form in American Poetry: Essays” by Burton Hatlen; University of Maine Press, Orono, Maine, 2021; 309 pages, hardcover, $35. In cultures with deep traditions of respect for learning, such as in ...