Personal Essay
Breathing Poetry
2 min readJan 6
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The common advice about writing is that to do it well, the writer needs to read a lot. It’s one reason an MFA is so full of curriculum reading. The idea is to create the habit so embedded, reading becomes naturally constant. I don’t disagree with the advice and practice.
In 2022 I read a great deal of poetry — so much that sometimes it feels like I breathe poems. A poetic incense…
