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Breaking Away [1]

Poetry [2]
1.12.21

“One day Juan Felipe Herrera said to me, ‘Abandon the left margin.’ It was a new liberation to my practice and process,” says Anthony Cody [3] in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine about his debut collection, Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020). Consider breaking away from the traditional mold of a poem and write one that feels free from expectations. Try using center-alignment or footnotes, or redacting a text the way Cody does in his poem “In the Redaction of the Fake 45th [4].”


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/breaking_away_1 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.pw.org/content/a_life_in_poetry_our_sixteenth_annual_look_at_debut_poets [4] https://tropicsofmeta.com/2017/05/08/poem-in-the-redaction-of-the-fake-45th/