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  • Welcome Mat Re: Anybody help me out here?!?!?!

    hey just wondering: you know when you post stuff and your profile appears beside your piece, how do you change the caption, 'New Member' (above your avatar) to what you ...

    Jul 30, 2005
  • Writing Tips Re: Um... making up characters, i guess...

    Ok, this will sound a bit weird at first but bear with me. Think of ten random things. If you can, cast your your mind into nothing-ness (perhaps a white ...

    Jul 30, 2005
  • Other Poetry Re: Beauty

    Overall, I like this. It's quite, oh how shall i put it, deep but i also think something is missing. I'm not quite sure what it is yet, though...(ponders for ...

    Jul 30, 2005
  • Dramatic Poetry Re: habiter est une perte de mort [comments appreciated]

    I must say, what a brilliant idea for a poem. I like the way you start off with such a simple sentence and then go on to include alot of ...

    Jul 29, 2005


The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch