WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

Ted Kooser

February 27, 2006

Poetry

what is poetry for?this silence A reminder: Jane Hirshfield is engaged in a conversation about poems, poetry, and other matters at The Well. This conversation is open to the public, and you are invited. I’ve been reading Ted Kooser’s The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets. Yes, I’ve… Continue reading

Art, Blogging, Books, poetry, Poets, small poems, The Artist’s Way, Writing

Jane Hirshfield, poem, poet, poetry, Ted Kooser

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Ted Kooser

Poetry