News from Poetry
When a poem just isn't coming into being, sometimes what is called for is something completely different. A poetry professor I know admonishes her students to "put in a boat," a tool she learned in her graduate classes. Perhaps this works because of the shock value, as in Bill Cosby's famous "How Long Can You Tread Water" routine. You leave in the morning for work only to find an ark in your neighbor's driveway. It is startling, unexpected, and it certainly makes you stop and think.
--From The Mid-America Poetry Review, Spring 2008
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