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Poetry [2]
1.19.21

β€œA title has the capacity to do an immense amount of heavy lifting,” writes torrin a. greathouse [3] in the January/February 2021 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. β€œIt is what calls a reader into the work; it can construct an entire world before they enter it and is the first frame of reference for it once they have left it.” This week, choose an abandoned draft of a poem and revise it by changing its title. How is the tension raised by creating a new way for the reader to enter the poem? How has the poem stopped being stagnant and lifted off?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/titular_2 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.pw.org/content/a_life_in_poetry_our_sixteenth_annual_look_at_debut_poets?article_page=4