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Poetic Influences

Contemporary writing doesn’t stand alone, isolated from the writing that came before it. In fact, our writing continues an ancient dialogue with the writing of our predecessors. That dialogue is articulated through influences older writers have had on our work. Below, from the monthly Chapter One series, are original examples of this perpetuality between past and present. 

 

January 2022: Barbara Novack: Poetic Influences: “Thanking Mr. Cohn”

December 2021: Denise Duhamel: Poetic Influence: “On Emily Dickinson”

October 2021: Julie Marie Wade: Poetic Influence: On “Meditation XVII” by John Donne

August 2021: David B. Axelrod, with a Note by Alfred Corn: “Advice from Rilke”

June 2021: Phillip Lopate, Poetic Influence, John Keats’ “When I Have Fears”

April 2021: Tony Trigilio: Poetic Influence: William Blake: “You Never Know What is Enough Unless you Know What is More than Enough”

January 2021: Denise Low: Poetic Influence: “The Womanly Lineage of Writerly Mentors”

September 2020: Eileen R. Tabios: Poetic Influences: “Angela Manalang Gloria”

June 2020: David Lehman: Poetic Influences: Ben Jonson’s “My Picture Left in Scotland”

December 2019: Mary Mackey: Poetic Influences:  On John Keats’s “Negative Capability”

 

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