I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. - Pattiann Rogers
I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.
- Pattiann Rogers
How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from… - Pattiann Rogers
How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from…
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that a… - Pattiann Rogers
What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that a…
In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being… - Pattiann Rogers
In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being…
Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In… - Pattiann Rogers
Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In…
I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems. - Pattiann Rogers
I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.
The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a… - Pattiann Rogers
The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a…
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. - Pattiann Rogers
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.
I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to… - Pattiann Rogers
I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to…
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