Welcome to The Poetry Conversation with Sharon Bryan.
I post weekly thoughts on poetry, and I hope you’ll join in. I think of this site as a big room with comfortable chairs where we can gather to talk about poems and poets, craft, translation, what it is to be a poet, what others are reading and listening to, whatever interests you. I’ll be inviting other poets to do guest posts, so please feel free to make suggestions.
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Recent Thoughts
Form and Variations
This week’s post was prompted by comments from two or three people in last week’s Fridays…
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The Pulse of Meter
“The only feet that patter here are metrical.” That’s a line from a poem by the brilliant–and childless–poet…
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How Does A Poem Mean?
Not what does a poem mean, but how does it mean. This week’s post began with something that happened…
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Poems You Have Questions About
I’m thinking about poems I have questions about. Many of them are poems I love for their music…
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Prose Poems
Beginning in the late 19th century, poets began to give up some of their defining tools on the…
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Persona Poems
Even though persona is just one letter short of personal, its original Latin means almost the opposite: theatrical…
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Some Thoughts on Poems to Keep Cool By
I was surprised not to get any comments on the Poems to Keep Cool by–maybe they worked so…
