Day 30, LexPoMo 2020

We’ve reached the final day of Lexington Poetry Month, and it feels bittersweet. I’m going to miss posting at the LexPoMo site, but it will also be nice not to feel so pressed to write and post. Since I only found time to read a handful of the more than 2,000 poems posted there this month, I plan to go back during July and give them the attention they deserve. That’s the truly sweet part about LexPoMo being over, now that I think about it.

Today’s poem was drawn from Stanley Kuntz’ “Halley’s Comet” and Stephen Burt’s discussion of it in The Poem is You, pp. 169-73.

https://lexpomo.com/poem/waiting-for-the-world-to-end/

Day 19, LexPoMo 2020

Here’s another found poem, a poem of erasure I suppose, from Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You. The full text may be found in his commentary on p. 171.

https://lexpomo.com/poem/periodic-return/

Day 2, LexPoMo 2020

I’ve been working my way through Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You for a couple of months now. It has been difficult to focus, between everything going on in the world and my own anxiety, but two or three pages of a poem and commentary have been just enough. For reference, this poem is taken from comments on p. 155.

https://lexpomo.com/poem/the-writing-of-poetry-perhaps/