Title: 5 Questions for Poets: Part 1 | HuffPost
Headings: 5 Questions for Poets: Part 1
5 Questions for Poets: Part 1
1. Do the Internet and social media contribute to the well-being of poetry?
2. What do most poorly-written poems have in common?
3. What do most well-written poems have in common?
4. How important is accessibility of meaning? Should one have to work hard to “solve” the poem?
5. What book are you reading right now?
MORE:

Content: 2. What do most poorly-written poems have in common? Adam Fitzgerald (author of The Late Parade ):
Their certainty. Matthew Zapruder (author of Sun Bear ):
Inattention. Matthea Harvey (author of Modern Life ):
Boring titles and a lack of specificity. Poets should spend at least as much time on their titles as they do on their hair. Laura Kasischke (author of Space in Chains ):
A poorly-written poem is one a poet decides to write for the wrong reasons — to be published, or to experiment, or to impress someone — and the poet knows that he or she has cheated, and the reader senses that it’s not authentic, the impulse out of which the poem arose. A poorly-written poem is a marriage of convenience, and it might look even better than a towering passion, on the surface, but we all sense there’s something fundamentally messy and crucial missing. Download
3. What do most well-written poems have in common?