Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
– June Jordan
Tag: poetry
Quotable 382
Poetry gives voice to the things we cannot describe. And it gives meaning to that which we cannot explain.
– Guy Stagg
Quotable 381
Poetry as an art form gives us practice caring about others.
– Tracy K. Smith
Quotable 380
One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontation.
– Richard Wilbur
Quotable 352
Word choice stands at the center of the practice of writing. This is particularly true for poetry, and even more so for haiku. Simply put, the choice of a word can make or break a poem.
– David Grayson
Quotable 340
My poetry is the record of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
– Dylan Thomas
Quotable 320
What I love about reading certain writers is that you can tell you are in direct contact with the poetry of their mind.
– Noah J. Nelson
Quotable 253
Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive.
– Kim Addonizio
Discussion: Flash Fiction: Stories or Poems
This discussion began here. So start with that and then continue here. Give us your thoughts on what constitutes a story. Do the requirements change when the writer has only 140 characters? Do some pieces of tiny fiction seem more like poems than stories? Where is that line drawn?
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Author’s Note: About ‘A Late Walk’
Spoilers below. Please read the story first.