Poetry Writing

Incompletion

A poem by John Barr

The Work Week

Mental illness meets the mundane.

The Regulars

A day in the life of a diner waitress.

A Poet’s Altar

A poem on what we give through poetry.

The Hove

Such as there was in the littleness of that dawn
could not be this. Not, certainly, the hove
of an invasion fleet from Angleterre,
flotilla…

Poems you should read before you die: The Waste Land — T. S. Eliot

Some must-read books on poetry

Primers for poetry lovers