Poetry 15: Monthly Poetry Prompt

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Large Short Poem

Tyler Mills
Jul 15, 2021
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“No poem wants to be small!” Stanley Plumly, one of my beloved poetry teachers, would say. What this meant was that shorter poems must feel like big poems. When you are reading a poem that occurs as a brief vocal utterance, a meditation that takes up less time to experience, the language itself should feel large. As a reader / listener / perceiver / aud…

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