“The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.”
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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
